Coalitions of the Willing
National identity is making a comeback--inevitably so, in our view. Almost overnight (although the resistance has probably been building gradually over several decades) top-down enforcer models of international relations have hit a brick wall. Britain has voted to leave the EU. Donald Trump has boldly and emphatically stated that he has been elected to serve the United States, not the United Nations. There are now public musings that the EU is going to fall apart.
What is going on? And, what is represented in this reactionary change, where the world seems to be going back to the future?
In recent generations intra-national groups have more and more adopted the model of seeking global unity through top-down legal impositions.
