Re:Microsoft has detected nation-state activity associated w...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @01:01PM
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> If you don't mean 'nation-state' then why use that very specific technical word
Nation-state has at least two specific uses in its field of origin (political science), which are closely linked conceptually though very different. It can mean either a state that is approximately one-to-one with a nation as became something of a European norm after after the Peace of Westphalia, or it can be the structural kind of sovereign that became the norm in the same space after the peace of Westphalia (a synonym for the latter sense is “Westphalian sovereign”).
When the context is more legal/structural the latter use dominates, when it leans more to the social the former use does.
Nation-state has at least two specific uses in its field of origin (political science), which are closely linked conceptually though very different. It can mean either a state that is approximately one-to-one with a nation as became something of a European norm after after the Peace of Westphalia, or it can be the structural kind of sovereign that became the norm in the same space after the peace of Westphalia (a synonym for the latter sense is “Westphalian sovereign”).
When the context is more legal/structural the latter use dominates, when it leans more to the social the former use does.
The cybersecurity use matches the latter use.