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Momentous decisions are increasingly driven not by national governments but by global or regional alliances. Are we witnessing the passing of the nation-state? Or are these new alliances as fragile and transient as the peace they are intended to maintain?

The Panel

Times columnist David Aaronovitch, Oxford political theorist and former Labour politician David Marquand, Guardian columnist Zoe Williams and ResPublica director Phillip Blond question the new world order

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  • Zoe Williams
    The Pitch
    Global unions need democratic accountability
  • Phillip Blond
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    Empire is a superior human formation
  • David Aaronovitch
    The Pitch
    In the modern world, all nations are interdependent
  • David Marquand
    The Pitch
    Europeans are not the sole heirs of the enlightenment
  • The Debate
    Theme One
    Is empire back?
  • The Debate
    Theme Two
    Empire and identity
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Kosh on 24/01/2013 1:41pm

Globalisation inevitably leads to the a shift in the reigns of power. Organisations like the EU need exist in accordance with a world populated by multination corporations and worldwide trade. The nation state is not forgotten, but simply exists in a larger marketplace.

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