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Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 4:48 pm
We have this pretty fiction that the world is made up of
approximately 200 politically autonomous nation-states. This
in the entrenched Wilsonian view of the political world
that, in particular, was sort-of realised after World War
One; a view that rendered the national empires (such as the
British Empire) of the past obsolete.
In the liberal
world order, the ideal structure of international polities
would be 750 nation states each with between (say) three
million and twenty million people. (OK, the Olympic Games
and the United Nations would struggle to cope with 750
independent members; but that s not a problem for a liberal