ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I offer a sustained critique of the nation-state, and by extension statism. I begin with a discussion of philosophical anarchism. I then offer an alternative version of philosophical anarchism which I am calling philosophical anti-statism. Philosophical anti-statism uses the republican understanding of non-domination as a way to evaluate the nation-state itself, incorporates the critical implications of the fact of globalization and extends the arguments of cosmopolitan republicans. Finally, I address the history of the rise of the “nation-state” in order to highlight the rather unstable normative basis upon which the nation-state has been built.
