Nation State Stuff: Obsolete twins, war and the nation state.
A nation state (or nation-state) is a state in which the great majority shares the same culture and is conscious of it. The nation state is an ideal in which cultural boundaries match up with political ones.[1] According to one definition, "a nation state is a sovereign state of which most of its subjects are united also by factors which defined a nation such as language or common descent."[2] It is a more precise concept than "country", since a country does not need to have a predominant ethnic group.
Today we live in a world of globalism in world economy, instantaneous world wide accessible communications, quick transportation and overly expensive militarism to protect the nation state borders rendering war non-economical. This is a time of the ending of the nation state system which developed between 1400 and 1800 and centered on the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 at least as Western (European) civilization is concerned. This begs the question--what will replace the nations state?
Some replacements are noted to include: multinational corporations many of which are financially sounder than the nations they are headquartered in (think tech giants Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft among others), cultural groups (LGBTQ, world wide sports federations, religious groups), ethnic and religious groups. Not to mention tribalism in its local and transnational manifestations. And let's not forget the resurgence of tribal nationalism which is struggling to maintain the status quo of the nation state remade as a nationalistic fascist state to counter the march forward of globalization. In the USA today we have hyper-polarization of the polity, the development of the peasant class as the middle class shrinks, the emergence of right wing Christian evangelicals as a political entity, various succession movements such as the Liberty State and the State of Jefferson, the developing power of the left coast (CA, OR, WA and NV) and the east coast NY, NJ, CONN and MA.
War is obsolete as is the Nation State.