The rise of the politics of the sovereign nation states
Particularly with regard to nationalism, the analysis will show that populism differs from its classical view of the overlap between political power, state and nation. For populism, the territorially bounded realignment between political power and the people can only be achieved against a state apparatus incorporated into transnational policy networks. Furthermore, as clarified by the Oxford English Dictionary, state sovereignty is the supreme, or absolute and independent, authority of a state. stands above its communities, especially with regard to the independent persons. A nation-state can be defined as a political entity in which the state and the nation are harmonious. A nation state differs from a country in that the latter does not have to be a predominant ethnic group Pusterla and Piccin, 2012. Simply put, a nation state is a large, politically sovereign country or administrative territory..