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.
Less than a year into office, Culver is making a serious case for Iowa--already the leading ethanol producing state in the nation--to become the leader in wind power as well.
The back page of the news section had a colored-weather map of the entire U.S. The news section contained a state-by-state roundup of headlines from across the nation.
When women hold only 16.8% of positions in Congress and 23.7% of state legislative jobs nation-wide, why is the pipeline so full in this small New England state?
The value of euro banknotes in circulation and the market for euro-denominated securities already rival the dollar, a long-established currency backed by a single nation-state.
From there we can see dozens of rectangular slabs set into the pavement, marking the burial places of centuries of Florentine families, and along the walls, funerary monuments to some of the greatest names in Italian history, including Dante, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo and Rossini, which make Santa Croce the Italian equivalent of Paris's Pantheon or London's Westminster Abbey, a shrine to the so-called lay saints of a modern nation-state.
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The news section contained a state-by-state roundup of headlines from across the nation.
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.
In his state-of-the-nation address on Monday, he hailed Guatemala's "historic decline in violence" in 2012.
And for more than 2, 000 years, it was not a nation-state but a civilisation-state.
There are several reasons that the nation-state as a political unit of sovereignty is under threat.
But cynics also saw an echo of Mr Putin's first state-of-the-nation address as president in July 2000.
But Mr Chirac is a Gaullist too, and so a defender of French sovereignty and the nation-state.
We assume that the nation-state, that long-standing and remarkably influential European invention, is more or less universal.
It established a newly centralized nation-state and launched it on a trajectory of economic expansion and world influence.
As a nation-state, Iran may be a rival and competitor for other nations.
The spirit of political liberty cannot flourish outside the body of the nation-state.
The Japanese and Russian strands of this hugely complex tale of an evolving nation-state are picked out in less detail.
Independent security experts said the scope of its complexity and method of operation suggests Flame was sponsored by a nation-state.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, the retiring chairman of the committee, called the groups "cyber hit men for hire" for nation-state actors in cyberspace.
Only a nation-state would have the financial, manpower and other resources necessary to develop and deploy Stuxnet, the experts argue.
Syria perhaps rises to the level of rook, since it is a nation-state and has a mutual defense treaty with Iran.
"We have had 526 fewer homicides in 2012 than in the previous year, " said Mr Perez Molina in his state-of-the-nation address.
It is a worry that is more often held about Britain, that other intransigent nation-state, whose cussedness in Europe has become legendary.
Throughout the world, one of the most prevalent causes of war, terrorism, and political instability is the ongoing weakening of the nation-state system.
While Americans remain individualistic citizens of a nation-state at the height of its power, Europeans are absorbed in an unprecedented enterprise of union-building.
It was inconvenient for those who were trapped on motorways or blockaded in harbours, but the internal affairs of a nation-state were its own business.
France, after all, still believes more strongly in the centralised nation-state.
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Without the nation-state there can be no real national political freedom.
This symmetrical squeeze on the nation-state sounds appealingly neat in theory.
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