While the society keeps looking for the more effective mechanisms of social regulation distancing itself from the state, the state casts doubt on the very existence of the society organized as a nation. The problem is as follows: will the society have time to beat it and find new political forms or the state-nation living out its days will re-format the society?

The choice of the good old-fashioned sort development model puts in a higher claim on the national elite. In this case the ruling class is but ready for subjective conduct not only in the national economic space but also in transnational economic relations

Curiously enough, but the national elite (if it likes so) can learn an important lesson from current grave and ambiguous condition of the world economy. The world credit crunch and global inflation, like an expert surgeon, have opened all “secret” defects of Ukrainian economy and defined the emergency problems to tackle.

The key condition of transition from the decumulation model to the model of sustained self-sufficient development includes the presence of businesslike citizen-owner possessing real estate, shares, retirement savings and directly interested in dynamic national economy

The Ukrainian state goes on lagging behind modern nation building, it is not ready to accept either a new configuration of nation, or redistribution of roles between the state and the market, or new political and economic frames of the nation in the integrating world

The recent idealistic projects of our top brass in the field of culture and spirituality have failed preeminently due to their flimsiness at the level of planning, and at the level of realization; it is a matter of course as far as all programs in Ukraine are realized regardless of those and beyond control by those, for whom they are intended.

The state and nation: what future do they have ahead of them? “Everything in this world of ours is destined to disintegrate and nobody volunteers to prop it! While I myself am eager to push the falling matter!,” thus spake Zarathustra.

This analysis offers key insights into what is a shifting security environment and considers how the United States can best respond to it. Dr. Phil Williams argues that we have passed the zenith of the Westphalian state, which is now in long-term decline, and are already in what several observers have termed the New Middle Ages, characterized by disorder but not chaos. Dr. Williams suggests that both the relative and absolute decline in state power will not only continue but will accelerate, taking us into a New Dark Age where the forces of chaos could prove overwhelming.

She began this essay by suggesting that our conventional views about the character of the European nation-state can no longer stand up to the realities of diminished state sovereignty, and to the decline of cultural homogeneity within the nation-states of Europe. So we need to uncouple state and nation, not with the idea of disposing of nations, for they will continue as long as people want them, but with a view to re-ordering their relationship, giving priority to the civic/political over the cultural nation.

Because nationalism is incipient fascism, the author tries to define the possibility of reconciling democracy outside the framework of an inherently coercive national state, posits an agrarian-based anarchism within a hierarchically structured participatory democracy. Therefore, the principle of respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity, non-interference in each other's internal affairs and equality should be applied to the international politics irrespective of the size of countries.

During the centuries the sovereign state has been the dominant form of political organization in the Western world. But, as author argues, the nation-state is a declining institution. The first part of this essay explores possible reasons for the decline of the nation-state. The second part examines ideas about the political structures likely to supersede the nation-state.

This post examine two views on the nation state. While Martin van Creveld claims that «the State is dying», «Inside their borders, it seems that many states will soon no longer be able to protect the political, military, economic, social, and cultural life of their citizens». Roger Scruton, on the other hand, tends to view the nation state favorably as an achievement: «the nation state has proved to be a stable foundation of democratic government and secular jurisdiction, we ought to improve it, to adjust it, even to dilute it, but not to throw it away». As Fjordman concledes, nation state will indeed be challenged, but that is not an argument for actively trying to get rid of it.