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.
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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