The Sovereign State Has In Our Times

Only Recently, During The Nineteenth Century, And Then Only In Europe, Do We Meet Forms Of The State Which Have Been Created By A Deliberate National Feeling.

The Simultaneous Reactions Elicited All Over The World By The Reading Of Newspaper Dispatches About The Same Events Create, As It Were, A Common Mental Pulse Beat For The Whole Of Civilized Mankind.

Hand In Hand With Nationalist Economic Isolationism, Militarism Struggles To Maintain The Sovereign State Against The Forward March Of Internationalism.

Moreover, If The Territorial State Is To Continue As The Last Word In The Development Of Society, Then War Is Inevitable.

Modern Techniques Have Torn Down State Frontiers, Both Economical And Intellectual. The Growth Of Means Of Transport Has Created A World Market And An Opportunity For Division Of Labor Embracing All The Developed And Most Of The Undeveloped States.