Nation-states beneath supranational politics

Were nation-states slowly giving way to a single pooled political order?

The trend can look stronger from a Western viewpoint, while states remain powerful elsewhere and beneath Western supranational institutions.

In this 2020 assessment, the nation-state remains a powerful political unit. From inside the West, pooled authority can make integration appear more widespread than it is across the rest of the world. National interests also persist beneath Western supranational structures. The warning concerns the point at which a state refuses further demands and tensions with the institution become open.