With the spread of the modern nation-state around the globe, there are few true band societies left.

This process helped produce the modern nation-state in Western Europe.

Comparisons focused on the modern nation-state and its relationships to the more traditional feudal city-state government.

The French Revolution paved the way for the modern nation-state and also had a big part in the birth of nationalism.

The role of the modern nation-state is to ensure full protection of universal human rights.

This system lasted through the Renaissance but began to deteriorate with the rise of modern nation-states in the early modern period.

In modern nation-states, these processes and systems are typically administered by a government.

The last several centuries have seen the emergence of modern nation-states.

A modern nation-state usually has clearly defined borders at which one government's authority ceases and that of another begins.

According to this view, taxation in modern nation-states benefit the majority of the population and social development.