The eurozone is made up of 17 different countries that still see their identity in the nation state.
We are in a constant battle against malware, cybercrime, and nation state espionage.
What everyone seemed to edge around, however, but no one said, was how much any nation state matters at all.
Power is now moving, increasingly, beyond the confines of the nation state and is rapidly making many of its institutions irrelevant.
"The current approach is to let the nation state apply its own instruments, but we urge more common actions, " he said.
It was developed as a response to the needs of the nation state in the early days of the industrial revolution.
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This argument can be paired with the idea that, in the modern world, the nation state is peculiarly wrong-sized for government.
That meant addressing the issues that matter to people today - so we became the party of the environment and well-being as well as the nation state.
He acted as a powerful head of a nation state, free to act in what he saw as his country's interest and that of the international community.
Europe's nations are at loggerheads, Germany is in a state of outrage, and the link between the euro and the nation state is more fraught than ever.
During the past six decades German politicians have told the Germans that the nation state, and especially Germany, was so dangerous that it had to be emasculated.
Among myriad topics addressed in the blog, Assange discusses mathematics versus philosophy, the death of author Kurt Vonnegut, censorship in Iran and the corporation as a nation state.
The lesson from Mandiant is that we must all come together and collectively fight cybercrime, irrespective of whether the criminal is a rogue hacker or a nation state.
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If yet another young army officer decides to declare himself the country's latest saviour before May, even long-suffering Nigerians might give up on it as a nation state.
Individuals find it difficult to cope with the vast quantities of cash consumed by a modern nation state, and everyday rules of thumb can sometimes lead to utterly wrong conclusions.
Since the modern nation state's founding in 1932, Thailand has been served by a constitutional monarchy and is the only country in Southeast Asia to avoid coming under European colonial rule.
All the leadership candidates would subscribe to these, although in Mr Clarke's case with a Europhile gloss on the nation state, and in Mr Redwood's case with an added dash of populism.
The whole thing was designed to keep states together when they were extremely jealous of their own powers, more like separate countries, on a hesitant journey towards becoming a fully fledged nation state.
If all of this works then what we are talking about is Amazon as a private company effectively taking on the traditional roles of a nation state: managing liquidity demand and internalizing externalities.
Silicon Valley stands as a prime example that this century will not be defined by the classic notion of the nation state, but rather by the regionalization of cities as the hubs of economic development.
The US recently said it would consider cyber attacks an "act of war", and reserved the right to respond to attacks with conventional means if they were found to have been orchestrated by a nation state.
When, in 1919, Ataturk set out to turn Asia Minor into a modern nation state, he was opposed not only by the Allied armies which had occupied important bits of it, but also by the imperial government that employed him.
"The geography of the targets (certain states are in the Middle East) and also the complexity of the threat leaves no doubt about it being a nation state that sponsored the research that went into it, " Kaspersky Labs said in a report.
Those insisting that it must still be the nation state, not the EU, that sets tax rates, tax policies, social policies, education and so on, are implicitly making the argument that people must still have the power of exit from the policies being proposed.
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The Eurozone leaders have made no progress in facing up the real problem: either they must form a true nation state union that eliminates the nation sovereignty of the Eurozone by merging all power into one central government resulting in the elimination of national governments or they must disband the Euro.
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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.
And what we did in Massachusetts is a model for the nation, state by state.
And for more than 2, 000 years, it was not a nation-state but a civilisation-state.
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