The modern nation-state and the concept of sovereignty emerged together. There is no necessary conceptual link between the two, since the idea of sovereignty could as well have been devised by the citizens of the Greek polis, but they are tightly linked in Western European history. However, recent history has begun to prise the two apart and erode conditions which have supported them and made them significant for the past several centuries. Because they are changing, our ideas about them must change as well.
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Elfstrom, G. (1997). National Sovereignty. In: New Challenges for Political Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371095_3
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