In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire’s death knell.

In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.

In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.

Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- citizen of the world -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st. All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell

The Initiative aims to analyze the issues facing China and the problems and opportunities that China's rise presents to other nations, ... The Initiative will make recommendations to policy- makers on these challenges, as we seek to understand -- and promote others' understanding of -- the internal transformation of China and its emergence as a major factor in the new international system.

How exactly that's defined, in terms of command structure and that kind of thing, is something that we are working on.

That means they don't have to worry about getting their throats slit or getting a bullet in the back of the head,

That isn't to prejudge what the nature and arrangements will be for Russian participation in KFOR, nor has Russia decided categorically that it is going to be part of KFOR, ... potentially quite dangerous.