nation-state
a sovereign state inhabited by a relatively homogeneous group of people who share a feeling of common nationality.
Origin of nation-state
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How to use nation-state in a sentence
Israel is a nation state like many nation states established as part of the flowering of nineteenth century European nationalism.
The fanciful assertion that nation states lessen it is unlikely to convince a Russian or Chinese dissident, or Tibetan.
Savaging Primitives: Why Jared Diamond’s ‘The World Until Yesterday’ Is Completely Wrong | Stephen Corry | January 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe principal cause of the destruction of tribal peoples is the imposition of nation states.
Savaging Primitives: Why Jared Diamond’s ‘The World Until Yesterday’ Is Completely Wrong | Stephen Corry | January 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHuman civilization has become human-technology civilization, and life centers not on nation-states but info-states.
‘Technik’ and the City: How Urban Centers Like New York and Tokyo Are Becoming Info-States | Ayesha and Parag Khanna | June 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is widely assumed that various nation-states and criminal organizations regularly engage in cyber-intelligence operations.
New Computer Malware May Presage Another Cyberattack, Potentially on Iran | R.M. Schneiderman | November 16, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
He wished to break up the nation-states of Europe, and create instead federative leagues of independent city-states.
The Social Contract & Discourses | Jean-Jacques RousseauWith the growth of empire and nation states this narrow parochial type of democracy became impossible.
Why change it for something diametrically opposed to its spirit, substituting compulsion for liberty, provinces for nation-States?
In popular usage the word is more commonly restricted to the great nation-states of modern times.
The Group Mind | William McDougallThe Balkanian experiment with nation states has visited only misery and carnage upon the heads of its perpetrators.
After the Rain | Sam Vaknin
British Dictionary definitions for nation-state
an independent state inhabited by all the people of one nation and one nation only
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