Nation-state

The concept of nations and nationality has been around for thousands of years. Herodotus wrote about the German nation 2500 years ago. In those days the term did not refer to a country, a government, or a state. It referred to a people. There were dozens of different German tribes with no central authority, but together, they still constituted the Germanic nation. Nations were the sum total of a given "people" who were part of a …

…have serious structural problems. Time and patience will not solve these problems. They may eventually be solved by war and ethnic cleansing. If the world wants a better solution, we will have to understand what the problems are, how they started, and how they can be fixed. This is possible. The data needed to understand the process of nation-state development is available. It is sitting in history books on library shelves all over the world.