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Abstract: Europe of nations meant so much for the realm of political science, political economy or social science in general. Obviously nowadays the European Union is nothing but a supranational agency. Is it enough to add a real (or fake) European dimension to the national or multinational identity of the continent''s 45 countries to get a decent picture of tomorrow''s Europe? Or could a Europe of regions, already foreseeable today, play the same role as Europe of nations in the past, far beyond its geographic borders, for the decades and centuries to come? Beyond the rhetoric of such a question lies a reality, so well depicted by Carl Popper, according to which a science validates itself by consequence of its correct predictions. It might be that Europeanism , as a scientific domain emerging stronger and stronger all across Europe, could be put at test in this very manner.
A prominent American philosopher, namely Richard Rorty, considered, as recently as 2003, that: -The European Union is the only force capable to oppose the hegemonic unilateralism of today- , an extremely strong and insidious danger for the liberal values of the free world, in today''s global environment. This leads to all sorts of interpretations in geopolitical theory, evidently to the benefit of Europe, seen to play nowadays a role much like the one it played during the 19th century. Just as the late 19th and early 20th centuries were industrial, mostly European patterned, the future seems post-industrial, quality of life oriented, and again European patterned. Is such an assessment valid in our world, politically dominated by America, or dominated by Asian productivity, or along with the largest and probably the richest country on earth, Russia, vigorously emerging from the ashes of the Soviet Union? Is this a Eurocentric statement?
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