Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Huang writes about Bitcoin and its wider impact on society. As Bitcoin matures into an institutional force, the next plank ...

Quorum Cyber’s recently released Global Cyber Risk Outlook Report 2025 outlines how nation-state cyber activities, particularly from China, are evolving. According to the report, China’s cyber ...

A conversation with political theorist Mahmood Mamdani on the inherent violence at the heart of a nation-building project, the war in Gaza, and the changing meaning of homeland. An illustration of the ...

Businesses are under attack from all corners of the globe and while many organisations may think that nation-state threat actors would never target or be interested in them, the reality is that no-one ...

Two new books offer sweeping critiques of the modern nation-state and the Westphalian international order, each making the case for new forms of supranational cooperation to cope with escalating ...

States of Our Union is a series of photojournalism presented in collaboration between The Nation, Magnum Photos, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. This series focuses on six ...

Democracy is not in decline. The nation-state is. That distinction — between democracy and the nation-state — might seem strange because it is so rarely made. When people around the world talk about ...