If you are watching this on the video hosting platform, I will provide a direct link to them in the description: <https://protesilaos.com/politics/2021-05-29-nation-state-democracy-transnationalism/> * Basics of the nation-state The nation-state is an institutional order that combines three otherwise distinct magnitudes: a culturally defined people, the territory of that people, and the institutions that hold force in that area and which bind those people together. And so, when we refer to the national will, or the national interest, we are, in effect, thinking in terms of those policies or stratagems that are put forward by the state /qua/ legally personified nation, the state as an agent of political initiative whose temporal reach is itself intergenerational.