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The peak of the nation-state was probably in the middle years of the
20th century, when national governments were at their most intrusive and
the most powerful nations competed for control of the entire world. Since
then, social and economic trends have caused much of the power once held
by nations to move to other levels of organization.

One aspect of this change has been the movement of sovereign power
upward, from nation-states to the level of regional organizations. As the
world grows more interdependent, many nations have found it useful to
form partnerships with their neighbors. Free-trade zones and customs
unions allow neighbors to trade more efficiently among themselves (and
compete more effectively against outsiders). Law-enforcement agreements
help control criminals who would otherwise flee across national borders
with impunity. Military alliances help nations to defend against more powerful
rivals. Nations which share an unpopular ideology can band together
to prevent outside interference in their social arrangements. All of these relationships
lead nation-states to hand over some sovereign authority to their
partners.

This process was already under way in the 20th century, but it has accelerated.
Today three out of six of the world’s Great Powers are not nation-states,
but alliances in which no one nation dominates. The European Union
was originally a simple free-trade zone, but over the past decades the E.U.
nations have integrated most of their legal, law-enforcement and defensive
arrangements as well. The Transpacific Socialist Alliance is an ideological
bloc, devoted to promoting and defending nanosocialism. Finally, the Pacific
Rim Alliance is a military partnership, allowing its members to defend
against possible Chinese or TSA aggression.

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