The role of the national regular armies in the formation and development of the nation-state and modern citizenship

In this study, it is examined the role of the national regular army in the formation and development of the nation-state and modern citizenship. Therefore, the location and era that the aforementioned concepts have occurred and have been developing, limit the scope of this study. So, the study focuses on modern society in the context of North America and Western Europe or the Atlantic in another saying. Besides that, Germany (or Prussia) before the Second World War and the Republic of Turkey (or Ottoman) also provide basic data. In the first phase of the study, it has been dwelled on the occurrence of the classical nation-state and national regular army and the construction of martial aspect of the modern citizen, from the American and French revolutions to the First and Second World Wars. In the second phase, it has been revealed the radical transformation of the classical nation-state and modern citizen in a struggle for the construction of the international war politics and international military organization within the frame of the United Nations system which based upon the human rights. Consequently, it has been established the national regular armies are one of the most basic elements of the nation-state, the martial and civil aspects of modern citizenship are inseparable and all of these undergo a transformation but are still important in despite of the developments after the Second World War. The nation-state as legal subject is not given place to transnational, international or supranational type of political power completely.