Nationalism in Microstates : Realpolitik in the Two Samoas

The aim of this paper is to examine one of the divided nations, the Samoas in the Pacific. The Samoan Archipelago is divided into two microstates: Western Samoa, an independent country; and American Samoa, a US territory. Although they recognize themselves as a nation, they are not interested in unification at all. Although the separation has created differences in their modern administrative organizations, their educational systems, and their degrees of modernization, the main reason for their different attitudes toward unification lies in the realistpolitics (Realpolitik) of the microstates. In the case of the Samoas nationalism does not provide the power to recover the original united nation