The general mood is for greater identity at local
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:56 am
US supported military regimes in Chile and Brazil have been destructive of the environment without bringing substantial economic benefits to the country (quite the reverse) ; while the backwardness of Black Africa compared to East Asia is now so obvious that the term Third World is widely regarded as redundant, and the suspicion that race can play a role in economic performance will not go away just because it is considered bad manners to mention it. Mauritius is a case in point. Every kind of interpretation has been and is given to explain the economic prosperity of the little island compared to the islands of the Caribbean which it resembles in many ways,, except a conclusion which can be drawn from the fact that its population, unlike the populations of the Caribbean, is predominantly Asian.
At the very time that leading politicians are calling for greater phone number list integration into their proclaimed economic and political power blocs, the movement to separation has never been stronger. But should separation be national or regional? For the source of power to be regional, national power must be sapped and this is of course what those who favour a social order with an ineffectual political order will welcome. The future looks grim for the nation state, caught as it is between tribal identity on the one side and imperial on the other.
The protection of empire at the higher level: few European regionalists or separatists are fundamentally against a united Europe for example, but most seem unable or unwilling to see the conflict of interest between the independence of their region and the authority of a central European state. But power is shifting from the nation-state to the institutions which for want of a better word may be called the System. The sovereign state, which as the German jurist Carl Schmitt pointed out, had been the basis of Euro-centric law ever since the Roman Empire, began to decline as a result of the blurring of the distinction between state and society after 1848. This signalled the approaching end of the international order known as jus publicum Europaeum. In Der Nomos der Erde (1950) Schmitt portrayed the emergence of a world economy replacing state economies.
At the very time that leading politicians are calling for greater phone number list integration into their proclaimed economic and political power blocs, the movement to separation has never been stronger. But should separation be national or regional? For the source of power to be regional, national power must be sapped and this is of course what those who favour a social order with an ineffectual political order will welcome. The future looks grim for the nation state, caught as it is between tribal identity on the one side and imperial on the other.
The protection of empire at the higher level: few European regionalists or separatists are fundamentally against a united Europe for example, but most seem unable or unwilling to see the conflict of interest between the independence of their region and the authority of a central European state. But power is shifting from the nation-state to the institutions which for want of a better word may be called the System. The sovereign state, which as the German jurist Carl Schmitt pointed out, had been the basis of Euro-centric law ever since the Roman Empire, began to decline as a result of the blurring of the distinction between state and society after 1848. This signalled the approaching end of the international order known as jus publicum Europaeum. In Der Nomos der Erde (1950) Schmitt portrayed the emergence of a world economy replacing state economies.