New Super Power Perspective on European Unity

For several centuries past, the.issue of European unity :i
received quite a considerable amount of attention among
European philosopher$ This was due essentially to the
multitude of wars which tiad befallen that continent. In
describing the situation 'in the sixteenth century in which
he wrote, Thomas Hobbes called it a state of nature, a
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situation in which the whole existence of man was characterised by the war of all against all. In international politics,