Word: multisovereign
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There is something anachronistic about these secessionist movements. After all, this is the era of unification, not only of Germany but also of a nine- tongued, multisovereign, historically riven Europe into that remarkable new creature, the European Community. (To say nothing of the joining of the two Yemens this May.) Integrationists point to the E.C. as the wave of the future, the only hope for peace and prosperity on a planet already suffering from a surfeit of sovereignty. Self-styled realists like Margaret Thatcher, however, scoff at the notion of multinational union as rank Utopianism, a dangerous deviation from...
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