The relevance of the animal we call STATE

For all the hoopla created by the globalisation theorists a.k.a the-death-of-the-state-is-imminent theorists around the demise of the political unit we call state, this strange species in international relations seems to defy  all announcements of its pre-mature extinction by over-enthusiastic ( for right or wrong reasons- you decide) scholars. Here is a interactive map of new states in the pipeline by Frank Jacobs and Parag Khanna which appeared in the Sunday Review of the New York Times. Notwithstanding the geopolitical or merely geographic consequences of this alteration in existential boundaries of certain states as we see them today, this article also tells us something much more important (remember Mearsheimer's claims in the Legacy of E H Carr article) in contemporary international life. And which is: the concept of state is still the highest manifestation of political organisation in the modern world and many state-less people still aspire for it very very passionately.

Thanks for your insights on the death of the state my dear good sirs, but  people on the ground are not buying your arm-chair theories.