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How long has the nation state been declining?
Robb sets the stage for where he sees the financial crisis going.
Running throughout his narrative is the decline of the nation state. He needs to clarify his historical narrative, however, because his post leaves ambiguity regarding when the nation state was ascendant.
In his first paragraph, Robb states that “The prolonged economic and financial crisis of the 1930’s (the Depression) forced the development of the modern nation-state.”
Then, in his last paragraph, Robb states that “…nation-states have been in decline for nearly 50 years…”
The decline of the state narratives I’ve read never seem to specify when the nation state was ascendant. Furthermore, narratives of the rise and fall of the nation state need to discuss the geographical differences in the adoption of the nation state. Were the trends in primacy of the nation state global or regional?
Related: how does one measure the ascendancy or decline of a nation state?
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