What is "nation-states"

Usage examples of "nation-states".

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).