John Negroponte interview

[Firn]

While there are a great many fine details I pretty much agree with Negroponte that the states will be the dominant political entities to come. The EU is a pretty interesting case, as it has in a lot of areas very considerable political power over it's member while have little influence in others. The discussion about it's status quo is from the juridical point of view rather intriguing.

Firn

[TristanAbbey]

While there are a great many fine details I pretty much agree with Negroponte that the states will be the dominant political entities to come. The EU is a pretty interesting case, as it has in a lot of areas very considerable political power over it's member while have little influence in others. The discussion about it's status quo is from the juridical point of view rather intriguing.

Firn

Agree on the EU -- Stephen Krasner, political scientist at Stanford, argues that the EU is really its own species, neither nation-state nor confederation:

The European Union, however, is not a model that other parts of the world can imitate...The EU is a new and unique institutional structure, but it will coexist with, not displace, the sovereign-state model.