Within the context of a global capitalist order it seems axiomatic that the route to democratization of individual nation states and of any degree must come through compromise and capitulation. I cannot substantiate this other that basing it on the logic of the interstate system as I see it. And this is a point which I have changed my mind on over time. Social welfare systems and too much democracy are impediments to the capital accumulation. But nation-states are an integral part of maintaining the structure of global capitalism.
States have militaries, states have gulag systems, and states have legitimating ideologies.
Indeed, it may be more effective in its streamlined form. It is being transformed, not dissolved.