Auvergnat
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But nations limit the conflict opportunities because people do not live together and are instead segregated on different territories. Besides they are politically independent so this means fewer opportunities for power struggles or civilizational disputesThe issue here is homogeneous groups with strong identities in conflict with other homogeneous groups with strong identities. There’s nothing magic about national borders to prevent those conflicts. If you eradicate variation within your nation, your conflicts will just be with groups in other nations instead.
As for IS, the rise of Islamism throughout the near totality of the Muslim world is typically a reaction against the disunion of those weak nations, where common political instances do not work because of the absence of a common and strong national identity, because of the numerous conflicts between tribes, religious groups, social classes and regions, against the distrust and corruption they cause. Like Nazism before, Islamism is an attempt to recreate social bonds that their weak national identities destroyed. This time their model is not the recent and illegitimate nation but rather the caliphates of a mythified past.