La plus petite communaute imaginee du monde Moresnet et la transformation dun territoire conteste en nation ; The smallest imagined community in the world: The Neutral Territory of Moresnet and the transformation of a disputed territory into a nation

peer reviewed ; This article proposes to study the different mutations of the particular Moresnet-Neutral territory. It is located near Aachen, where it was established from the Treaty of Vienna of 1815 to the Treaty of Versailles of 1919; and it was under the joint sovereignty of the Netherlands (then of Belgium from 1831 to 1839) and of Prussia (which became Germany in 1870). The process of the nation-state transformed the village of Moresnet, then disputed territory, into a simulacrum of independent state: the smallest imagined community. Perceived from the outside, especially from the pres... Mehr ...