In the interstices of international law, quite a number of states have developed strategies to reach out to and engage with their diasporic populations or ethnonational kin outside of their borders who are not their citizens but citizens of the state in which they habitually reside. Some states even provide for that kind of policy in their Constitutions. Some states grant preferential treatment and special rights to “kin-foreigners,” thereby creating “ethnizens.” This article canvasses provisions in national Constitutions in Europe and Asia that provide grounds for engaging with the members of the nation outside of the state, analyzes the modes of engagement—mainly ethnizenship practices and various ways to strengthen links with diasporas—and examines the rules of engagement. It shows that the international norm has not provided effective guidelines regarding the strategies of transnational nation-building beyond the personal boundaries of the state and concludes that the decoupling the nation from the state registered by the transnational nationhood strategies falls short of constituting a departure from the logic of the Westphalian nation-state.

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国家诉国家：将跨国国家宪法化、创造民族以及与欧洲和亚洲的亲属外国人交往

在国际法的空隙中，相当多的国家制定了战略，以接触和接触其境外的侨民或民族亲属，他们不是其公民，而是他们惯常居住的国家的公民。一些州甚至在其宪法中规定了这种政策。一些州给予“有亲属关系的外国人”优惠待遇和特殊权利，从而创造了“民族”。本文探讨了欧洲和亚洲国家宪法中的条款，这些条款为与国家以外的国家成员交往提供了基础，分析了交往模式——主要是族裔实践和加强与侨民联系的各种方式——并研究了相关规则。订婚。