The Breakdown of Nations

Leopold Kohr

1957, 1978

TO COLIN LODGE

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD by Kirkpatrick Sale

INTRODUCTION

  1. THE PHILOSOPHIES OF MISERY
  2. THE POWER THEORY OF AGGRESSION
  3. DISUNION NOW
  4. TYRANNY IN A SMALL-STATE WORLD
  5. THE PHYSICS OF POLITICS: THE PHILOSOPHIC ARGUMENT
  6. INDIVIDUAL AND AVERAGE MAN: THE POLITICAL ARGUMENT
  7. THE GLORY OF THE SMALL: THE CULTURAL ARGUMENT
  8. THE EFFICIENCY OF THE SMALL: THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENT
  9. UNION THROUGH DIVISION: THE ADMINISTRATIVE ARGUMENT
  10. THE ELIMINATION OF GREAT POWERS: CAN IT BE DONE?
  11. BUT WILL IT BE DONE?
  12. THE AMERICAN EMPIRE?

AFTERWORD by the Author

APPENDICES: THE PRINCIPLE OF FEDERATION PRESENTED IN MAPS (Maps drawn by Franc Riccardi)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX