Fiscally, politically, legally, culturally. I mean for crying out loud, just a few years ago Scotland tried to complete the devolution process and secede from UK. Ditto for Catalonia and Spain. Decentralization that was enacted by British and Spanish governments had its consequences.
Yes, that it probably delayed the secession process. No need to seceede if you don't even feel the central government.
Decentralization relates to secession in that it is typically a response to secessionist government. But fact that it correlates with secession does not mean it
causes it. In fact, typical process is: centralized government > secessionist feelings > "too little, too late" decentralization > secession. Decentralization is not the cause of seccession, but rather the last-ditch effort to save the previously-centralized empire that is falling apart.
European Union is not centralizing the continent. And given that basically any decision requires everyone's consent, it's not going to take any power from the states any time soon. Poland and Hungary are the most recent examples - they are getting loads of European subsidies but EU can't even use that for leverage. A member state can tell Brussels to fuck off while simultaneously demanding boatloads of freebies - and be successful.
This push of democratic governments for centralization you conceive of? It's the opposite of what's actually happening in the last 30-40 years.
It was established as a confederation and is now some wierd mix between confederation, federation and a unitary state. European Commission has a
monopoly on the legislative initiative, EU can
penalize countries which fail to apply EU laws, and Parliament
cannot even propose legislation. But all of that is secondary; what matters the most is the extent of areas which EU itself controls. And that is where
primacy of the EU law comes in - that little tidbit is why I consider EU a dictatorship. In Roman Republic, Roman Empire, and medieval states, local law was supreme, and imperial law regulated relations between local municipialities and other local municipalities, as well as local municipalities and the central government. In EU, local law can be rendered irrelevant by the EU legislation, making EU into legislative dictatorship.
But that's how its will be. Peaceful secession is an exception.
For reasons I outlined early in this post.
Your list is few tens of thousands of entries short, even if we conceive of Ethiopian monarchy as one thing, rather than a number of successor monarchies taking over from each other. It's still an extreme outlier, lost in a sea of Shuns, Palmyras and Soinssons that went up in smoke in very short order.
And that's before we start accounting for general acceleration of life in the last two centuries.
That is true. But monarchy does have advantage in that monarch - regardless of whether it will actually happen or not -
expects to leave country to a successor. Meaning if he fucks it up, it will be due to incompetence. But democracy is even worse. Majority of people are incompetent at governing and only concerned with immediate profit. This goes doubly for plutocrats who finance the democratic politicians' elections campaigns. As a result, democratic government may well fuck up
intentionally. Its only saving grace is that it often gets in its own way - but that goes for HRE's version of government as well, or any type of significantly decentralized government.
so um I'm just going to leave these here.
Wars of the Roses
French Revolution
And both of these were consequences of centralization. England was fairly centralized for a medieval European state, and Wars of the Roses consisted of basically ritualistic combat aimed at taking control of the throne. Meanwhile, French Revolution was caused by Louis XIV centralizing the power in his hands, and stamping onto local rights - which then paved the way for overpowerful magnates and court, which in turn led to the country being run into the ground - not by the nobility, but rather by its own central government. But that is a flaw of overpowerful government, not something that is unique to monarchy: a republic can easily end up the same way.
You just named two single polity programs as examples of "interstate" production. Especially ironic with Rafale, which was created specifically because France dropped out of the Eurofighter joint development program.
Please try to
read the post before replying to it. I specifically stated:
local or interstate programmes.
Local. As in, "single state". There is no contradiction.
And honestly? I'm bloody tired of arguing with the people because they have missed/misread a single word in my post. I don't know if there is something wrong with the way I write, but it happens way too often.
