"The paradox of the Olympics is it is a trans-national event, but it's organized by nations and inherently nationalistic," he said.
The dilemma here is straightforward: Although European science is increasingly carried out as an activity without national borders, science policy is still made by nations.
The country finds itself surrounded by nations undergoing significant change.
Can environmental objectives be achieved better by nations coming together or coming apart?
Britain has been displaced in the world by nations with an open competitive education system.
He drew a correlation between wars fought by nations and matches fought by boxers.
From its very beginning, circumnavigation was an imperial act carried out by nations wanting or maintaining global empires.
At this time the city became the major Chinese base for commercial imperialism by nations of the West.
The refugee crisis underlines that cross-border challenges can only be dealt with by nations freely working together.
Even now, though, the Estonian platform has been adopted by nations as disparate as Moldova and Panama.
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