i think it may be useful to note that the nation state, in a form that we would recognize it, is a pretty late player on world stage. i'd credit it's arrivial with the 30 Year's war, and the shattering of the multi-national ideal of Christendom in the reformations.
if this entity hasn't always been here, it deserves a critical analysis...and i think some of that has begun to come up.
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