We are said to inhabit a post-Westphalian world in which nation states no longer command the globe as they did even in 1944.
What responsibilities do we have to one another in a globalized, post-Westphalian world order?
We may well be moving into a post-Westphalian world, but it won't automatically be a better one.
It may be hard to imagine a post-Westphalian world, given how much of our assumptions are built on the deep foundation of that structure; but to paraphrase the great Ursula K. Le Guin, "We live in nation-states.
In this neo-Westphalian world order, with its endless vistas of micro-violence and unchecked exploitation, each hegemon would dominate its immediate region -- Brasilia in South America, Washington in North America, Pretoria in southern Africa, and so on.
That post-post-Westphalian world will be more for the next president to deal with and the next establishment, in which Nasr is almost certain to play his part.
Unfortunately, Kymlicka has joined the ranks of those who perpetuate the Westphalian fantasy of a world of separate and politically equal nation-states and embrace nationalism as a progressive force at this moment of history.
Of course, the ambition today cannot be to recreate that world (or to reestablish an anachronistic Westphalian order of religious separation), but rather to devise a new order predicated on different assumptions.
Several European hams, notably the salt-cured prosciutto di Parma of Italy, the delicately smoked Pražská šunka and szynka of the Czech Republic and Poland, respectively, and the robust Westphalian of Germany, are exported as delicacies around the world.
