| Like neighbouring Mali to her west, Niger is not a nation state defined by one language and one race, but a Commonwealth of peoples. |
| Yet all of the old parties and organisations are rooted in the nation state. |
| Collectivists believed that war would help solidify the people into an even stronger nation state. |
| It is just that the identity of the nation state will be defined far more by cultural identity than by economic identity. |
| That would be a really interesting way to erode power from the nation state. |
| The sovereign nation state, so the argument goes, leaves little social policy role for the European level. |
