Might include New Zealand, Australia. India, Sri Lanka. Pattern of bloc formation elsewhere. Legal bodies continue to extend purview.
Legal power tends to replace military power as means to resolve all but local differences.
The University, Critical Theory, Affirmative Postmodern scholarship. It should be an interesting century as both knowledge and religion combine with politics and economics to keep progressive scholars busy and conservative scholars unhappy. February 13, 1996. There is a lot of speculation about the 'fragmentation' of the nation-state into ethnic enclaves. The effort to form an independent Quebec, the fracturing of the former Yugoslavia as well as the collapse of the old USSR are cited as cases in point.