How refreshing to think of the decision of whether to annex or to separate as a rational decision that one might discuss outside of a war room.
I think the biggest arguments for separation involves political participation and (what you raise) innovation.
Security is a problem for separating or staying separate, and it can create strange bedfellows. One intro I read to The Prince explained Machiavelli’s entire exercise as an attempt to persuade the Medici to rid Italy of foreign powers so that Florence could go back to being a republic. In other words, Machiavelli wanted a republican city-state with the help of an authoritarian.
I wonder if multi-country civilizations would help to bring about the end of nation-states, which I consider a modern plague.
Finally, I loved Jane Jacobs’s The Life and Death of Great American Cities. How wonderful to see that the same mind wrote about the relationship between cities and nations and wrote about separatism.
How refreshing to think of the decision of whether to annex or to separate as a rational decision that one might discuss outside of a war room.
I think the biggest arguments for separation involves political participation and (what you raise) innovation.
Security is a problem for separating or staying separate, and it can create strange bedfellows. One intro I read to The Prince explained Machiavelli’s entire exercise as an attempt to persuade the Medici to rid Italy of foreign powers so that Florence could go back to being a republic. In other words, Machiavelli wanted a republican city-state with the help of an authoritarian.
I wonder if multi-country civilizations would help to bring about the end of nation-states, which I consider a modern plague.
Finally, I loved Jane Jacobs’s The Life and Death of Great American Cities. How wonderful to see that the same mind wrote about the relationship between cities and nations and wrote about separatism.