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Example sentences for: nation-states

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The world would remain strife-torn, he said, only now the main actors would be not ideological blocs or nation-states or superpowers, but distinct "civilizations"--Western, Islamic, Confucian, Japanese, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American, Hindu, and African.
Foreign-policy experts worried that if Zairian rebels defeat government forces, this could lead to the disintegration of other Central African nation-states whose boundaries are the arbitrary products of the colonial era.
After the war, the Allies, following Wilsonian ideals of self-determination, straightened up Europe into tidy nation-states.
After the victory, Count Afonso Henriques proclaimed himself the first king of Portugal, making it one of the first nation-states in Europe.
Over 60 nation-states are currently parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, including many European nations and Japan, although the United States has yet to approve this treaty.