The EU itself was born of the catastrophe of two world wars, collisions of competing nation-states.
The contemporary democratic world provides numerous such examples of ties between nation-states and national diasporas.
In the modern world, nation-states are too puny to handle many of these challenges alone.
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That is why we Europeans were able to develop our different identities as nation-states.
Neither African governments nor their western backers had any interest in letting nation-states break up.
At a maximum it will force nation-states to find new ways to derive revenue from their citizens.
In its place, the treaty created a Europe of nation-states, which survived for the next three centuries.
By Europeanization I mean the ideology which posits that our sovereign nation-states have to submerge in a pan-European superstate.
All of his respondents were from modern nation-states there were no hunter-gatherers, or people from other small-scale societies and most were college students.
We must all stand for the survival of our nation-states because our nation-station states embody the democratic liberties which we enjoy.
Instead of depriving Germany and other nation-states of their sovereignty, the post-war leaders should have introduced a Swiss-like system in our countries.
He recognised a shift in the function of nation-states, from the provision of rights to that of services, which transcend constitutional jurisdictions.
England and France, the two dominant nation-states for most of the continent's history, came into being in more or less their modern form.
Now there are more incidents like the cyber attack in South Korea and Washington, which nation-states can use in military or political conflicts.
Morgan who were trying to do to the new mega-corporations what the Rothschilds had done to nation-states a century before: control them with money.
Europe's nation-states are being challenged from above, by the growing powers of the supranational European Union, but also from below, by increasingly assertive regions.
So there are few recent examples of mergers between nation-states (North and South Yemen and the two Germanies are rare exceptions) but many of secession.
The threats facing the United States -- whether from conventional nation-states, rogue states, extremists, or even cyber-terrorists -- are broader than ever before, he noted.
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World citizens embrace the idea that the United Nations and other multinational organizations are imbued with a moral authority not found in nation-states like ours.
Our peoples resent the permanent alienation of power from their nation-states.
An assassination campaign against suspected terrorists is not the same as one that occasionally rubs out unfriendly political leaders of nation-states, but it raises similar questions.
One such place is the developing world where nation-states are joining to deliver electricity to those 1.3 billion people who are now going without any power.
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The issue had been given fresh impetus by EU President Jose Manuel Barroso who this week called for the EU to evolve into a "federation of nation-states".
In some cases, before specific development projects or programs can succeed, aid is needed to help countries build the institutions that are indispensable for the functioning of nation-states.
Many of today's multinationals are as big as nation-states but are only just beginning to put together the complex series of checks and balances that impinge on governments.
Public diversity poses two sources of anxiety to modern nation-states.
He also wants the abolition of nation-states, which he claims are an instrument by which the rich world, led by the United States, divides and rules the poor world.
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Diplomacy arises out of the fundamental character of the nation-state system, with its basic assumption that nation-states are autonomous, often divergent in their interests and unequal in their power.
Select nation-states as well as nonstate actors with the intent to harm Americans are becoming capable of doing so by using widely available cyberattack tools to disrupt poorly protected systems.
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But the two rejectionist votes are forcing Europe to confront the dilemma of what it wants to be: a tightly integrated super-state in waiting or a looser grouping of nation-states.
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