Britain just pulled out of the EU.
Most multi national empires collapsed in the West as a result of WWI. The Austria Empire for example.
The British and French Empires disintegrated more slowly, over somewhat longer into the 20th Century.
The US, by itself, only 250 years old, is now threatening, as Professor Kaiser likes to point out, to disintegrate, as it almost did, I would add, and should have, in 1861.
The Japanese Empire collapsed.
The largest Empire ever, the Mongol, which had absorbed numerous other peoples, including both the Chinese and the Russians, collapsed over a long period of time after dynastic partition.
What are the chances of a substantive integration of all global peoples? Zero.
What are the chances of a global federal governance structure? Zero.
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