A World beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State by Pierre Manent (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006) DAVID CLINTON is Professor of Political Science and Department Chair at Baylor University. If the nation-state is indeed dying, who will be the mourners at its funeral? Not the many figures in contemporary academia who have denounced it … Continue reading The Death of the Nation-State?[i] A World beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State[/i] by Pierre Manent