As he put it, only the Palestinians have a right to a nation state.
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.
Traditionally, minorities used various local means to engage the majority population in a bid to influence the political direction or cultural norms of the nation state.
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.
The essential elements of conservatism remain as they have been for the past 20 years free markets, individual liberty, social responsibility and a belief in the nation state.
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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The Catalans had rarely felt themselves part of an entity called Spain, in part because throughout modern history, the idea of a Spanish nation state has been amorphous.
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.
And it had no significant traditions of a strong central government that could provide services to its people, or a civil service, or -- just the basic infrastructure of a modern nation state.
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 results of our technical analysis support the hypotheses that sKyWIper was developed by a government agency of a nation state with significant budget and effort, and it may be related to cyber warfare activities.
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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.
"The results of our technical analysis supports the hypotheses that sKyWIper was developed by a government agency of a nation state with significant budget and effort, and it may be related to cyberwarfare activities, " a CrySyS Lab report said.
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