The Significance of Borders (book)

[Parodite]

The book is accesible via the link.

The Significance of Borders

Why Representative Government and the Rule of Law Require Nation States

PREFACE
For almost three-quarters of a century, the countries of Western Europe have abandoned national sovereignty as an ideal. Nation states are being dismantled – by supranationalism from above, by multiculturalism from below. Both supranationalism and multiculturalism undermine the territorial jurisdiction and the shared national culture of the nation state. Moreover, they partake of the same vision of the future. Their vision is one of a world beyond borders and beyond the distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them’ that these borders entail.

Whether perceived to be causing wars, to be impractical, unnecessary or merely small-sided, borders, demarcating the end of one jurisdiction and the beginning of another, the end of one way of life and the beginning of another, are actively being annulled.

It is the purpose of this book to reconsider the significance of borders. The book argues that representative government and the rule of law can exist only within a nation state. And it suggests that, paradoxically as it may seem, the social and economic advantages that globalization brings about can only be realized through strong, sovereign nation states – however internationally orientated and open to newcomers they may be, and notwithstanding intensive cooperation with one another.

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[Simple Minded]

Thanks Parodite. The preface reminds me of this book which predicted the destruction of the nation state a dozen or more years ago.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Sovereign-Ind ... 0684832720