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.
The spirit of political liberty cannot flourish outside the body of the nation-state.
Throughout the world, one of the most prevalent causes of war, terrorism, and political instability is the ongoing weakening of the nation-state system.
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.
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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Since the rise of the modern nation-state, classical economists have had to reason further from the Law of One Price, pointing out that the Law of One Price is a law of market-based economies and that the law becomes distorted as the market become distorted by forcible interruptions in transnational exchanges.
France, after all, still believes more strongly in the centralised nation-state.
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Her campaign signaled this week that Bachmann intends to dial back her efforts in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire, putting even greater pressure on the candidate to perform well in the leadoff caucus state.
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.
This argument can be paired with the idea that, in the modern world, the nation state is peculiarly wrong-sized for government.
My name is Wilfred Cleveland from the Ho-Chunk Nation, president of the Ho-Chunk Nation, the Bear Clan, from the state of Wisconsin.
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.
Twenty-nine voters began early, voting just after midnight in the small northern community of Dixville Notch -- the first-in-the-state polling place for the first-in-the-nation primary.
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.
Since 2008 North Dakota has surpassed Oklahoma, California and Alaska to become the second-biggest oil-producing state in the nation (after Texas), with production upwards of 700, 000 barrels per day.
The news section contained a state-by-state roundup of headlines from across the nation.
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.
For the second year in a row, residents of Vermont are the healthiest people in the nation, according to a new state-by-state survey by the nonprofit United Health Foundation, which is funded by insurer UnitedHealth Group .
Establishing such heritage would normally make it very difficult for the Cherokee Nation and state social services to agree to any non-Indian adoption and removal from the state.
The tainted meat received considerable coverage in China after the findings were broadcast by China Central Television, the nation's powerful state-run broadcaster.
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.
Undoubtedly, Venezuela will remain divided no matter the next president, but fair and transparent elections will help ensure the next administration has the political capital to tackle needed reforms -- from a stagnant economy to rising crimes rates, rampant transnational crime and the rebuilding of the nation's powerful state-owned oil company -- that will benefit all Venezuelans.
And now, for the very first time, a large-scale solar power plant -- the largest of its kind in the entire nation -- will deliver electricity produced by the sun to the citizens of the Sunshine State.
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