The Question
A single, fundamental question to the world’s leading minds
Question 3: Can we imagine there’s no countries, nothing to kill or die for?
Fifty years ago, John Lennon urged us to imagine that there were no countries. The nation state is proving incapable of solving civilizational scale problems such as climate, pandemic, arms race, technological overreach. In a recent book, Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman propose a model of planetary and local governance which accepts the nation state but takes away its centrality. Can you imagine a world without or beyond the nation state?
