Detail European Disunion Done Right; The Holy Roman Empire   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 405 no. 8816 (Dec. 2012), page 71-73. Topik: Old Empire; European Union; Euro Crisis; Financial Crisis Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.75 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel The "old empire" offers surprising lessons for the European Union today. Precisely what that was, however, has been a matter of passionate dispute among historians ever since, with special relevance today. The traditional view is that Central Europe, exhausted by crisis (the Thirty Years War, which had ended in 1648), yet again failed to get its act together and form a proper union--ie, a centralised state. For the next 150 years, the "old empire" thus drifted into fragmentation and geopolitical irrelevance. As the Prussian historian Heinrich von Treitschke described it in the 19th century, it became "a chaotic mess of rotted imperial forms and unfinished territories", until it expired with a barely audible whimper in 1806. Such a reading would warn leaders of the EU today against repeating history: Thou shalt not let the euro crisis turn centripetal forces ("ever closer union") into centrifugal ones, with member countries exiting from the euro zone or even the EU. For this would lead to a gradual break-up of the EU similar to the erstwhile dissolution of the empire, and deliver the continent to its old curse of Kleinstaaterei (small-statism) in a world of giants such as America, China and India. In the worst case the old nationalist energies would return, just as they metastasised in the century after 1806. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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