european_nation has definitions from the fields of government,geography
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[ noun ] (government,geography) countries occupying the European continent

Synonyms

European_country

Used in print

(Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)

International_law had to fit the conditions of Europe , and nothing that could not fit this system , or the interests of the great European_nations collectively , could possibly emerge as law in any meaningful sense .

On_the_one_hand , the major European_nations had to maintain vis-a-vis each other an emphasis upon sovereignty , independence , formal equality - thus insuring for themselves individually an optimal freedom of action to maintain the `` flexibility of alignment '' that the system required and to avoid anything approaching a repetition of the disastrous Napoleonic experience .

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