The Breakdown of Nations

Leopold Kohr

• Publisher: UIT Cambridge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780857844323
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Constitutions
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In "The Breakdown of Nations" Leopold Kohr shows that, throughout history, people living in small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. Virtually all our political and social problems would be greatly diminished if the world's major countries were to dissolve back into the small states from which they sprang. Rather than making ever-larger political unions, in the belief that this will bring peace and security, we should minimize the aggregation of power by returning to a patchwork of small, relatively powerless states, where leaders are accessible to and responsive to the people.Leopold Kohr, an economist by profesion, was the originator of the concept of 'the human scale', an idea later popularized by E.F. Schumacher in "Small is Beautiful".

Index

1. Acadia (Nova Scotia) 1
2. accumulation, capitalist, law of 1
3. Acton, Lord 1, 2
4. aggression, biology of 1
   1. flashpoint of 1
   2. spontaneity of 1
5. Alexis, Stephen 1
6. Algeria 1
7. American Civil War 1, 2
8. Amritsar 1
9. Andorra 1
10. animals, heraldic 1
11. annihilation, disadvantages of 1
12. anti-empire 1
13. Appenzell 1
14. Argentina 1
15. Aristotle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
16. armies, relative strengths 1
17. assimilation 1
18. Attlee, C. R. 1
19. Augustine, St. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
20. Auriol, President Vincent 1
21. Australia 1
22. Austria 1
23. ‘average man’ 1

1. Bacon, Francis 1, 2
2. Bagehot, Walter 1
3. Baird, H. M. 1
4. balance, bad, symptoms of 1
   1. in nature 1
   2. mobile and stable 1, 2
5. bank officers, defalcations of 1
6. barriers, vs. boundaries 1
7. Basel 1
8. Bavaria, Hitler and 1
9. begging, as profession 1
10. Beirut conference ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Foreword
• Foreword
• Introduction
• I: The Philosophies of Misery
• II: The Power Theory of Aggression
• III: Disunion Now
• IV: Tyranny in a Small-State World
• V: The Physics of Politics: The Philosophic Argument
• VI: Individual and Average Man: The Political Argument
• VII: The Glory of the Small: The Cultural Argument
• VIII: The Efficiency of the Small: The Economic Argument
• IX: Union Through Division: The Administrative Argument
• X: The Elimination of Great Powers: Can It Be Done?
• XI: But Will It Be Done?
• XII: The American Empire
• Appendices: The Principle of Federation Presented in Maps
• Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright