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Tom Scott has a great short little video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE93J33SfHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE93J33SfHY
by unsignedqword 10y ago
Tom Scott has a great short little video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE93J33SfHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE93J33SfHY
- tim333 10y agoIt was interesting him saying the idea of national boundaries with sovereignty was kind of invented in the Peace of Westphalia. That seems to be fading a bit with transnational organisations like the EU. I'm wondering what will happen to the UK Eire border now we're supposed to be Brexiting.
- __derek__ 10y agoThis article on the history and future of nation-states from New Scientist is from 2014, so it doesn't cover Brexit, but you may find it interesting: "End of nations: Is there an alternative to countries?"[1] [1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329850-600-end-of-nations-is-there-an-alternative-to-countries https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329850-600-end-of-n...