Post-Ottoman states adopted the European nation-state model as their foundation

Evidence

The fragmentation of the Ottoman Empire, following the encroachments of European powers at the turn of the twentieth century, generated new research questions for modern Middle East studies. Following World War I, the Ottoman Empire was replaced by a variety of political entities ”… who adopted the European model of the sovereign state and the European ideology of nationalism - that the state should be the homeland and incorporate the aspirations of a single people or nation” (Esman and Rabinovich, 1988:4). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3462

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to broader literature on nationalism and the nation-state model as a European export (e.g. Anderson, Gellner) and to the postcolonial imposition of colonial boundaries. — connects to: Twentieth-century Balkan revolutionary situations were overwhelmingly national in character — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1040