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The chapter pleads for a new approach in studying nation-states. Having defined the composite and complex notion of ’nation-state’, the author groups the main nation-state theories into two categories, and claims that systems science goes far beyond the current attempts to bridge the gap between agency theorists and structuralists.
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Kuijper, H. (2010). The Nation-State a Systemic View. In: Liu, S., Forrest, J.YL. (eds) Advances in Grey Systems Research. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13938-3_3
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