National sovereignty is the result of international diplomacy. It is, I emphasize, the result - not the cause. It is remarkable how many people get this backwards. So far as they get it backwards, they are using a romantic (ultimately religious), mythical concept of sovereignty, rather than anything based in scientific materialism.
Indeed, diplomacy, and agreements, often between very distant powers, long precede the existence of the nation state. Nomadic humans, who often traversed territories many hundreds of miles long, often had longstanding relations with quite distant peoples.
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