[A. Pole]

Large nation states, it is true, are the constructs of post-Medieval (dare I say post-Christian?) man, and it is more wholesome to feel a deeper allegiance to Brittany than to France, to South Carolina than to the United States. Nonetheless, in the world in which we find ourselves, nation-states are one of the last bulwarks against a globalism that is bent on destroying all distinctions between man and man (to say nothing of man and woman and man and beast). The result will be a world in which there is no place for us, either as Christians or as people of the West, and there is small consolation in the fact that the liberal-libertarians, whose moral, social, and cultural anarchy got this ball rolling, will be among the first to be eliminated.

Brave New World Bump

[GSlob]

Samuel Huntington in his "Clash of Civilizations" provides a different analysis - a measure of unification ["globalization" in imprecise modern parlance] is indeed theoretically possible - up to the level of a single civilization, but not beyond. Whether it is desirable is an open question - precisely because of the "clash" part of the situation.