While nationalism (whatever that might exactly mean) is showing many signs of recrudescence, the modern nation-state as a compact and isomorphic organization of territory, ethnos, and governmental apparatus is in a serious crisis. I have elsewhere laid out the argument for the transnational conditions for this crisis, my evidence for the emergence of major non-national and indeed postnational social formation, and a perspective on the globalized production of locality in the contemporary world. I shall not review these prior observations but shall paraphrase them in the following paragraphs, since they constitute the background for the arguments put forward here.