I don't agree that you can achieve greater consensus and be better served by fragmenting into smaller and smaller states. Not only do you lose economies of scale and vastly increase the number of government bureaucracies, smaller states have far less clout when it comes to standing up against the self-interests of global corporations.
Looser multi-state treaty organisations tend to become paralysed by internal wranglings between their members - just look at the EU and, to a lesser extent, the UN. That's not to say those organisations don't have a role in the world. There are certain things they are very good at (see NATO), but they can't do everything that an integrated nation state can.
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I don't agree that you can achieve greater consensus and be better served by fragmenting into smaller and smaller states. Not only do you lose economies of scale and vastly increase the number of government bureaucracies, smaller states have far less clout when it comes to standing up against the self-interests of global corporations.
Looser multi-state treaty organisations tend to become paralysed by internal wranglings between their members - just look at the EU and, to a lesser extent, the UN. That's not to say those organisations don't have a role in the world. There are certain things they are very good at (see NATO), but they can't do everything that an integrated nation state can.