What is "nation-state"

Usage examples of "nation-state".

Often nation-states use terrorist organizations to further their geopolitical goals.

In short, the paradigm shift is defined, at least initially, by the recognition that only an established power, overdetermined with respect to and relatively autonomous from the sovereign nation-states, is capable of functioning as the center of the new world order, exercising over it an effective regulation and, when necessary, coercion.

They had unlocked the metadynamics of economies and population growth, and the fitness landscapes of nation-states.

Like a good many worlds whose economy was too precarious to support full em ployment and too poor to pass the leisure barrier beyond which working became irrelevant for the individual, Cy clops made the worst of both worlds by maintaining a government labour force analogous to the pregalactic armed forces of Earthside nation-states.

Since a nation can only be at war with another nation-state, why did our smoldering if not yet burning bush come up with such a war cry?

Playing with loaded guns was always dangerous, as much so for nation-states as for children, though the latter were more easily disciplined--the former were too big for that.

It was now theoretically possible to get commercially available 128-bit encryption systems, and these were extremely difficult to break even by the most sophisticated of nation-states and their black services.

Playing with loaded guns was always dangerous, as much so for nation-states as for children, though the latter were more easily disciplined—the former were too big for that.

With reference to humans, this quadrant then runs from kinship tribes to villages to nation-states to global world-system (getting "bigger" on its own level).

Let's see, she said, finding under the counter a huge book, a kind of phonebook, full of comprehensive visa information for the world's nation-states.