Nationalism and Atomism

Through most of the era, the Nations of Modern Political Philosophy are Atomist constructions--associations of individual persons, often via contracts, implicit or explicit.  The first significant divergence from that Atomism are the Holist concepts of Rousseau's General Will, and the We of the Preamble to the U. S. Constitution, each signifying a Whole greater than the sum of its Parts. Still, these Nations remain at least partly Atomist.  For, while internally Holist, their relation to other Nations remains that of an Association of Atoms.  In contrast, given a Cosmopolity, such as McLuhan's Global Village, as the fundamental unit, a Nation is a subdivision of the Whole.  Accordingly, under the conditions of the full actualization of that Organicist concept, nationalistic domestic and foreign policies are complementary, not disjoint, as they typically are presented these days.