Some scholars hold that the Soviet Union was a hybrid entity containing elements common to both multinational empires and nation states.

The anti-drugs industry - like the anti-alcohol, Prohibition laws before - turned a problem into a multinational criminal empire.

Now we have the collapse of the multinational Soviet empire, leaving us with a destitute and contentious group of states with outstanding border disputes.

They view the matter as a contemporary Grimm's fairy tale, pitting their community against a vast multinational corporate empire.

Far from it: he'd built the company his grandfather had started into a multinational empire.

For nationalists, 1848 was the springtime of hope, when newly emerging nationalities rejected the old multinational empires.

Indeed, it is the only multinational empire to have declined without war or widespread violence.

Of course, there had been mistakes and repression, but the basic problem was that the clash of national aspirations in a multinational empire could not be reconciled.

But China stands as a massive, anachronistic multinational empire.

The Pan-Germans at that time were engaged in a last-ditch struggle for German supremacy in the multinational empire.