>> How sovereign can any nation be these days, given the complexity of the
>> multinational economy?
>
> Travel much?
I wish I could, but I'm unemployed and broke as hell. But global tourism and travel continues to grow like mad -- something like 10% a year. Literally millions of people are traveling around the world these days. And those who don't or can't travel - myself included - can surf the Web. Once translation software improves, most of the major linguistic barriers will start to dissolve, too.
> I don't accept your premise that state borders must be abolished in
> order to create "multinational forms of solidarity"
Not abolished by fiat, just sublated. I use "multinational" mostly because the academic buzzword of the day is "transnational", which tends to completely efface nationality, for the benefit of deeply problematic Americanizations of various sorts.
-- DRR