As the Economist put it in an article as early as 1930 (quoted by the German political scientist Ulrich Beck, 1993: 99–100): Economically, the world today acts as a single, common unit. Politically, the world has not only remained distributed among sixty or seventy sovereign nations, but the national units are becoming smaller, more numerous, with an increasing trend towards national consciousness. The tension created by these two diverging trends has led to a wave of shock, upheaval and collapse for the world population. What the Economist foresaw in 1930 – apart from the fact that today there are far more than 70 nations – is even more the case today. [De Cillia, Reisigl & Wodak, in Discourse and Society, 10(2):149-173, 1999] ... plus ca change?
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 08:39:28 +0000
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