About the Book
As every schoolchild learns (or used to, anyway), over two hundred years ago a most remarkable group of men got together and declared a revolution—that the American colonies were, by right, to be independent of England. In doing so, they drew up a long list of specific grievances, which few pay attention to any longer. But they based their claim of a right of independence on a set of principles so sweeping and universal that they continue to reverberate down the years.
The great promise of transnationalism is that all cultural distinctions will be leveled by the rules and bureaucracies of the elite. In effect, there would be no basis for any future conflict because conformity to a single set of ideas would be imposed. This would be a future of eternal peace, of perfect security, at the cost of only human freedom. Just as classical sovereignty asked only that we turn a blind eye to the question of how states were governed to obtain peace between them, so too do the transnationalists offer us peace if we all allow them to make all decisions for us, if we just submit to the Leviathan.
When you finish this book, you will hopefully be equipped to choose between these competing visions. At the very least you should be made aware that there is such a competition underway and that much rests on who prevails