Effective regulation of virtual currencies would only be achievable and effective through the greatest possible international cooperation, because the regulatory
power of nation states is obviously limited.
But the geographical and environmental position and
context of nation states is crucial for their political and economic security.
Companies are only subject to legal sanctions for failing to abide by the Code where it has been incorporated into the
legislature of a nation state.
Indeed, the priorities and bias of certain asylum systems and the restrictive asylum
policies of nation states have made it very difficult for those without an embellished claim to be granted asylum.
But we certainly weren't in a
target of nation states trying to influence elections back when we only had 100 million people in the community.
Each agreement has further restricted the
power of nation states to establish boundaries around their own markets, forcing them to open their markets to others.
Bartana investigates these through the ceremonies, public rituals and social diversions that are intended to reaffirm the collective
identity of the nation state.
Even one Eurosceptic blogger has commented that «Article 50 is not really a process designed to facilitate the exit
of a nation state from the EU — it is an attempt to build a process that is so risky, politically and economically, that no country would dare invoke it».
After a largely indifferent response to last year's French proposals about the «re-founding» of the European Union, Germany now wants to reassert its control over a splintering
community of nation states in order to be able to push back at the American and Chinese influence in the continent's economic and political affairs.
Jose Manuel Barroso and Carl Bildt rehearsed Delors» demand for the creation of a «
Federation of Nation States», Angela Merkel called for a «political union» while Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy as well as Christine Lagarde and Wolfgang Schauble argued for some sort of «fiscal union» and the need for an «economic government».
The Ghana 1992 Constitution does not design the ministries the elected President has to create to work and run the
economy of the nation state to robust growth.
Still, in the long
history of nation states, and given human beings» persistent tribal tendencies, when does an outside institution, however well intentioned, have the right to intervene in another country?
The present world
order of nation states is largely the result of the unjust colonial expansion of Europe by force during the past five centuries.
And that presumption has severely weakened the Church in America of being the kind of community that produces people that can stand against the
pretensions of a nation state that is out of control.
The ancient idea of empire was shattered by the
formation of nation states — defined by their distinctive linguistic spheres — which proved to be the true bearers of history and of unprecedented power.
They both argue that the world is heading for chaos as a result of the
breakup of nation states; the intensification of tribal, ethnic and religious loyalties; the spread of international terrorism; and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
The free market operates within the world
system of nation states established by the colonial expansion of Europe during the five centuries after 1492.
Wars were fought for the glory and power
of nation states rather than for Christianity against the infidel, or for sectarian religious beliefs.
By the middle of the seventeenth century the primacy of Christian faith and the church were giving way to the
primacy of the nation state.
Quite apart from the mistakes and sins of her own leaders, the Church in Europe in the years since the Enlightenment has faced constant pressure from revolutionary violence, intellectual contempt, ideological atheism,
idolatry of the nation state, two disastrous world wars, and mass genocides.
The people are beginning to re-organize their life into one that is locality - centered, religious community centered, culture - centered and, ethnic - centered life, away from the political
center of the nation state.
Overall, judging by the rapturous applause he received, Miliband was in sublime form: dynamic, incisive, intelligent (a man who can quote the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia and apply it to the current foreign policy debate between those who oppose liberal interventionism based on the
principle of nation state sovereignty and those who support it based on the natural rights of individuals superseding that sovereignty certainly deserves this accolade) and even at times funny.
«You seem to have a loathing for the very concept of the
existence of nation states... perhaps that's because you come from Belgium, which is pretty much a non-country.»
In order to understand the
rationality of nation states and to ultimately deal with the problem of nuclear proliferation, we need to understand rationality beyond a cost - benefit calculation and combine it with a cultural approach that emphasises established and familiar patterns of behaviour.
However, when this happens, they often turn to parties of the populist left, seeking a critique of globalisation and a revival of the
authority of the nation state.
The UK must live up to its international legal and moral obligations, especially when the
majority of nation states have renounced the development of their own nuclear weapons.
The classical
definition of a nation state requires territory, population, a formal body that can impose taxes and government policy, and recognition by (some number) of sovereign states.
The conflict in the DRC is, as Stephen Lewis so aptly put it, «an act of criminal international misogyny, sustained by the
indifference of nation states and the delinquency of the United Nations».
It made a lot of sense in the world I grew up in, where new challenges, like in the economy and the environment, were increasingly calling into question the
capacity of nation states to protect their citizens alone.
But since the EEC became the EC and then the EU, it would appear that it has acquired all the legal
apparus of a nation state, including a supreme court.
To the 1992 Constitution of the Ghana Republic the
security of the nation state, and the security and health of the ECONOMY are of prime importance, which vest the presidency with certain discretionary authority.
BEFORE NIGERIA, THERE EXISTED A
LOT OF NATION STATES, SEMI AUTONOMOUS STATES, KINGDOMS AND CONFEDERACIES AS WELL AS REPUBLICS WITHIN THE SPACE CALLED NIGERIA.
Debora MacKenzie's magisterial account of the
evolution of nation states asks whether we can «manage a transition to whatever we...