19 September 2009

EU 2020? ~ Emergent States Speculation...

Interesting to read in The Map Scroll about The Coming European Crack-Up? where...
"Coming Anarchy imagines a future Europe where the continent's various semi-latent separatist movements have achieved their goals."
This is a fascinating exercise, speculating about possible future...
"...devolution, the decline of the state and the proliferation of microstates [and the resulting] map of the future of Europe in 2020. It is purely speculative and in no way a firm prediction, but rather a sketch of the possibilities and list of the most likely cases."
I'm especially interested in the trend towards post-nationalism -- or at least the interesting bifurcation into macro-states -- such as the US, Russia, India, China, Brazil, EU -- and effective micro-states -- such as Singapore, UAE, Rwanda, and special cases like Hong Kong, and in intriguing emergent cases like Paul Romer's Charter Cities.

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