Articles de Politique étrangère - The Legacy of the Great War: Sovereign States, Globalization and Regionalism Politique étrangère, Vol. 79, No. 1, Spring 2014

The economic and social pre-eminence of the State was born of it, as was the rise of new values such as universal human rights, the establishment of collective security which previously depended on bilateral alliances, and the institution of universal legal norms. From the Great War we have inherited both a reaffirmed nation-state as well as the potential to go beyond it in regional and international organization.

Published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 79, No. 1, Spring 2014 [1].