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Few historical systems have been subjected to such wide-ranging critical reassessment in the last two decades as the nation-state. Social scientists have debated the withering away of the state and the expansion of global networks of power such as transnational society and global civil society.2 Political theorists have turned away from the methodological nationalism bequeathed by the nation-state towards ideas of cosmopolitan democracy.3 Recent historians, too, have problematised the essentialist and bounded nature of the nation-state. Post-colonial studies in particular have criticised insular approaches to the nation and have emphasised the systemic interpenetration of metropole and colony.
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Trentmann, F. (2007). After the Nation-State: Citizenship, Empire and Global Coordination in the New Internationalism, 1914–1930. In: Grant, K., Levine, P., Trentmann, F. (eds) Beyond sovereignty. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230626522_3
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