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 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.
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.
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.
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.
So commentators on trade and immigration should stress the cosmopolitan perspective, knowing that the practical imperatives of the nation-state will not be underrepresented in the ensuing debate.
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.
In addition to nation-state actors, Admiral Rogers noted the increasing presence of "surrogate" criminal actors in cyberspace that serve to obscure the hidden hand of criminal activity done on behalf of formal nation-states.
Control would still reside with the contributing nation-state that hired the private security company, and contracts can be designed to maintain control of the duration of deployment and implementation of armed force.
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The things that define for the Chinese who they are and what China is are a product not of the past 100 years of calling itself a nation-state but 2, 000 years of being a civilisation-state.
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has measured the fundamental adequacy of its force posture in terms of the ability of U.S. forces, without national mobilization, to defeat two nation-state adversaries in geographically separate theaters nearly simultaneously.
The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (1933) sets forth what is generally accepted as the legal criteria for the establishment of a nation-state: (1) A permanent population, (2) a defined territory, (3) a government, and (4) the capacity to enter into relations with other states.
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