Europe's Coming Revolution

<p>The European Union appears to be a unique and unprecedented political entity but <strong>what exactly is the European Union? </strong>Is it a club of aging great powers ? A superpower that never quite manages to emerge? A declining empire? Or<strong> a nation in the making?</strong> And where exactly is it headed? </p><p></p><p>To answer these questions we must first understand how nations emerge how states are built and where the great revolutions come from-and what they truly are. We must recognize that far from being the unprecedented construction we often imagine the European Union is merely the result on a different scale of <strong>the same dynamics that produced all the great European nation-states. </strong></p><p></p><p>These same dynamics now suggest that the EU is preparing-after having constituted itself as an imperial state following the Maastricht Treaty-to collapse under the weight of the energy crisis the fall of the euro and the eruption at its borders of the most violent armed conflict since World War II. </p><p></p><p><strong>Will this collapse mark the end of the European dream or the opportunity for a revolutionary resurgence?</strong></p>