What does NS stand for?

The European Union is a combination of nationstates and the people of those states are citizens of their own countries - hence I would make a distinction between someone from Europe and the UK.

The shift from nationstates to so-called "market states" has created interconnected economic, financial, and environmental systems.

While the constant interlacing of love and politics in Latin American national romances is indicative of a hegemonic drive for forging new nationstates, as Doris Sommer has famously averred, the preoccupation with filial ties in Cristina Garcia's novel is representative of a minority resistance to precisely such nation-building intents presented in the text as essentially patriarchal tendencies (Sommer 6).

Single nation-states have significant trouble controlling this level of the economy, even though the system of nationstates remains central to negotiating the regulations for its 'deregulation'.

Nationstates are said to be terrorist if they react violently, or even challenge, the international social order in any unconventional manner.

Disillusioned with multilateralism and, what he perceives as the failure of nationstates, Niall Ferguson is a strong advocate of the creation of a 'liberal' American empire to bring order and stability to the international system.

It should address the issue of political integration between nationstates.

Perhaps most fundamentally, the anti-globalisation movement, in taking up the cause of the nationstates of the South, will inevitably come to stress agendas, such as adding labor and environmental standards to the WTO, that state officials from most countries of the South will be ambivalent about at best.