nation-state Definition
nation-state (nā′s̸hən stāt′)
noun
the modern nation as the representative unit of political organization
nation-state Usage Examples
Preposition: as
unit: One of several themes Smelser develops is that the nation-state as a unit of analysis is becoming less relevant.
Converse of object
- base: The Young Turks aimed at making the Ottoman Empire a unified nation-state based on Western models.
- take: Its domains are political societies or nation-states taken one at a time.
- establish: By the eve of World War II, most Islamic countries were prepared to overthrow colonialism and establish nation-states.
- call: Nation-States When a nation of people have a State of their own, it is called a nation-state.
- create: The French revolution created the modern nation-state based on universal values.
- include: It is hard to envisage us having political arrangements that do not include nation-states.
Adjective modifier
- sovereign: Globalism refers to elimination of the sovereign nation-state as a locus of community, loyalty, economy, laws, culture, and language.
- capitalist: No capitalist nation-state is going to be able to reverse the tide of neoliberalism.
- democratic: On the one hand, it has enabled the construction of a modern democratic nation-state out of the ruins of a pre-modern empire.
- modern: The French revolution created the modern nation-state based on universal values.
- European: Then indicate, with your reasons, how far you think the European nation-state will be undone.
- independent: You say that the " days of the independent nation-state are gone " .
Modifies a noun
- formation: So what would be his prescription for successful nation-state formation?
- system: The war currently being waged in the Persian Gulf proves the inadequacy of the nation-state system.
- level: A lot of politicians at the nation-state level are pleading that they have no power in the face of global markets.
- power: And do they result from reduced trade barriers and a lessening of nation-state power, or are they driven by national policy?
- border: Many who had taken advantage of his regime were originally from the Congolese side of the nation-state border.
- boundary: Since migration is intrinsically a transnational process, its effects are not likely to be confined within nation-state boundaries.
Preposition: in
era: Dilemmas of the Nation-State in the Era of Globalization ( Van Gorcum: Amsterdam, 2000 ).
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