Editing The Nation-State and Sovereignty (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Understanding</span> ==
The Nation-State is understood through '''Exclusion''' and '''Identity'''.

'''1. The "Westphalian" Wall (Sovereignty)''':
"My House, My Rules."
* Before **1648**, "Power" was "Overlapping" (Kings, Popes, Lords).
* **The Treaty of Westphalia** "Simplified" the "World."
* It "Argued" that **"Inside"** the "Border," the **"State"** is **"God."**
* (See Article 542). "No Other Power" can "Legally" "Tell" a "Sovereign State" "How to Treat its Citizens."
* "Order" is **"Non-Interference."**

'''2. The "Imagined" Community (Nationalism)''':
"One People, One Land."
* **Benedict Anderson** "Argued" that a **"Nation"** is an **"Imagined Community."**
* (See Article 669). You will "Never Meet" most of your "Fellow Citizens," but you "Believe" you are **"One"** because of a "Shared Language," "History," and "Flag."
* **The State** "Uses" **"Nationalism"** to "Create" **"Loyalty"** and "Taxable" "Unity."
* "The State" is the **"Body"**; "The Nation" is the **"Soul."**

'''3. The "State" in Crisis (Globalization)''':
"Borders" vs. "Flows."
* (See Article 670). In the **Information Age**, "Money," "Information," and "Pollution" "Do Not" "Respect" "Borders."
* **Corporations** (see Article 514) have "More Power" than many **States.**
* This "Creates" a **"Crisis of Sovereignty"**: where the "State" "Can No Longer" "Protect" its "Citizens" from "External Economic Forces."
* "Power" has **"Evaporated"** into the **"Network."**

'''The 'Recognition' Paradox'''': A "State" only "Exists" if **"Other States"** "Say" it does. (The 'Taiwan' or 'Palestine' problem). It proved that "Sovereignty" is not just "Physical Control"; it is a **"Collective Social Construction"** (see Article 630).
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