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Can you build a nation without war?
Rosemary Hollis and Sir Robert Cooper discuss the formation of new nation states
Political leaders from around the world have been paying their tributes to the man seen as the last of the founding fathers of the state of Israel - Shimon Peres.
Professor Rosemary Hollis at City University and Sir Robert Cooper, a diplomat who has worked at the highest levels of the EU and was a foreign affairs advisor to Tony Blair, discuss how nations are built.
(Image: Shimon Peres. Credit: Reuters.)
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