Over the past 15 years, predictions about the death of the so-called nation state have grown. About 20 years ago, similar predictions were vague in the writings of Ernst Haas in Beyond the Nation State (1964), or Karl Deutsch's "The Crisis of the State" in Government and Opposition (1981). As everyone knows, more events are taking place that fall outside the reaches of authority of the nation state.

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