Francis Fukuyama had in the newspaper "Die Welt" written and to be achieved while the political unity of Europe. I had planned to respond.
The observed formation of states in our recent past that, mostly atavistic traits. was celebrated at the fall of the Soviet Union, for example, most of nation-states its resurrection, it had previously given the many decades to transform previously nationhood. The other form of state-building the "nation building" is in fact no nation building, but also a throwback international politics: a return to colonial policies on the basis of raw material procurement and the consequent need for global strategic positioning (military bases, etc.). is
With all power that has the chance, any presence of floats on a fluid historical time, from whose members the possibilities of historical development transform itself and therefore their presence if not herauszulesen to imagine, yet. This was a different aura when the nations of Europe formed, or even the United States become a nation. It would be doubtful, if not completely ruled out that the United States, for example, again in our time unite as a nation would be able or should I say: zusammenzuschiessen?
Radical Shortening of all transport routes, (including human capital), including the transport of information and capital led to the collapse of the words Territory border, and va. The territorial policy (yet still the best proof that we no more, nor less than animals) was by the mobility of goods and exchange of ideas and the associated permeability of borders under the terms of the always existing unequal distribution of intellectual and material resources to no longer be maintained. She had to transform itself. There is no state to do but without a territory, are the conditions for nation building if not impossible, but infinitely more difficult.
the hateful message of "highway robbery", which is sometimes used as a metaphor, and done quickly as a polemic can be all too easy to overlook the great truth behind it: that it is almost only way there and not places of a life that could be relevant that these places could be designed to be defended territories ... Businesses such as policies are still on the make who is able to control goods and information flows to exercise.
This fact, together with the empirical observation of the atavistic basics of modern nation building, their power, as the term implies, from reaching into the past Forms draw and owe no way the current circumstances, leads me to the conclusion that in Europe can not simply form again a pan-European nation - and if so many should dream, it is condemned as such an atavistic dream to stay, as the reality proved to us.
For analysts of international politics, it is already speaking of the "world domestic policy" (NATO it has operated), which is correct insofar as the importance of the international nature of the existing states in relation to the recent increase in weight of the internal politics of each country is increasing dramatically. Also, the European union under the global sign and is focused not on the objective of a European political entity - it is not the actual driving of the development. Perhaps the political unity of the subjective drive individual political individuals, but not really relevant societal drive! But like any idea of \u200b\u200boperating company will be authorized its creation in each and every one of its unique attractive shape to even get over mistakes and detours on the result.
The "Territory" of Europe, which can only be in quotation marks territory will never be able to provide the basis for a nation, but only a pre-existent form of a world community, is that of their international positioning according to their global network and defended in the course of its development also repeatedly claimed new and need. Neither the hegemony of the United States is able to avert it, nor the somewhat confused, largely backward-looking policies of the Arab and Islamic states. Terrorism is a phenomenon have been a dead end in the development of countries has always been - never a political act of a new beginning. In my opinion, is the terrorism of the modern era to the last convulsions of obsolete social systems, which can last a very long time indeed, and only then will stop, if necessary reforms within these countries is are.
The world of law (not to be confused with the naivety of the notion of "world government"!) And the resulting inability to escape from the world history and from the international responsibility, and indeed for any existing state seems to be an inevitable development. Including China, can not simply as an international trade actor play the role of the United States, because with the changing times, the role will change it self could be formulated more precisely and the actors as subjects are based on the possible roles, the opportunities for action only created. If the U.S. is not a global hegemon, one day more, it is, my Presumption can be no one else. develop, the days when a nation or state an opportunity to have seized and he was followed by other nations / states in this development are probably so far gone forever, as the development opportunities are all still available, but access for people and states no more than actors. So maybe the future will initiate the era of political institutions whose democratic legitimacy will play no or a minor role. What is the "democracy" sebst happen, that's the really interesting question we can answer only the future ...
(The concept of "world law" is in a article by Prof. Matthias Alberts in the magazine "Parliament" used, as I have stated emphatically and describes the front of territorial barriers not stop giving, international legal education, whose sovereignty is fed beyond the nations.)
