{"id":34429,"date":"1998-02-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-02-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/entre-le-meilleur-des-mondes-et-la-fin-de-letat-na\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T01:36:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T00:36:21","slug":"entre-le-meilleur-des-mondes-et-la-fin-de-letat-na","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/entre-le-meilleur-des-mondes-et-la-fin-de-letat-na\/","title":{"rendered":"Entre le meilleur des mondes et la fin de l’\u00c9tat nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between the Best of All Worlds and the End of the Nation State
\nIt has become commonplace to predict the decline of the nation state by pointing to the destructive effect – yet another – of globalization. For the American political scientist Roger Masters the problem is more profound. If one examines the evolution since the 16th century of the practical and theoretical knowledge necessary for the operation of a society, one realizes that the innovations that have simultaneously revolutionized the communication of ideas and the use of contraints have worked at the dawn of modernity in favour of nation states and now to their detriment have made them more and more vulnerable internally and externally. The gulf in knowledge between the elite and the general public tends moreover to widen. This can only foster the impression of an uncontrollable future benefiting extremist doctrines with their soothing certitudes. It is, of course, possible to try to restore stability and predictability by even more systematic recourse to biochemical and genetic technologies, but the “brave new world” which would result would be unbearable in the long term.
\nMasters has not tried to give any details of this outline of an evil alternative, but we eagerly expect what he means by “proto-Western premodern lifestyle” which is the lesser evil we can hope for in the future.
\nThe author of this article is Professor of Political Science at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. The essence of his work uses ethology (science of animal behaviour) to shed new light on major issues in political philosophy. In addition he has made a critical translation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In June 1997 Futuribles published a review by Jacques Richardson on his most recent book Machiavelli, Leornado and the Science of Power.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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