Tea Preradovic’s Reviews > The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities > Status Update

We live in an anarchic international system, where survival is based on the competition for power. Liberal foreign policy will continue to backfire until there is a world state, which would have to be ruled with an iron fist because of the inability to agree on first principles and universal rights. However, a world state is virtually impossible b/c no nation-state will voluntarily give up its self-determination.