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Focusing on the supranational level, the paper argues that any process of nation- and state-building should be seen as an intersection of a multiplicity of supranational socio-political spaces. For example, the Albanian nation- and state-building process is linked to the development of the idea of the existence of an Albanian nation and of its relationship to sovereignty–a relationship that developed, from the nineteenth century onwards, at the intersection of social and political dynamics related to different supranational spaces: the Ottoman imperial space, the Balkan space, the Adriatic space, the European space and, although to a lesser extent, the transatlantic space.