nation-building

noun

1. the advocacy of national solidarity in South Africa in the post-apartheid era

Example Sentences

At the founding, and the court endorsed a regime of nation-building in which the mix between government and markets supported an emerging economic nation.

From Slate

Her victory was “a masterstroke of nation-building, soft power and cultural diplomacy,” Kazimier Lim, a public policy consultant with an interest in LGBTQ+ issues, wrote in a commentary for the Lowy Institute, a think tank in Sydney.

From Los Angeles Times

“I think building energy infrastructure is the greatest nation-building thing we can do.”

From Seattle Times

Ukraine’s government has “gone beyond the nation-building effort that characterized the past years, and now takes into account the interests of not only the majority nation, but also of all minorities and indigenous peoples living on the territory of the country,” he added.

From Seattle Times

One is of nation-building and achievement; the other is of the displacement and dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

From BBC