Christian Lous Lange Quotes

Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.

National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

Globalization is blurring the distinction between foreign affairs and domestic politics.

Global integration is changing what both nations and business enterprises are becoming, and as a result neither traditional economic remedies of the left of the right nor conventional political strategies can be counted on to work.

The Nation is ceasing to be the leading form off the world’s structure; organizations transcending national boundaries are becoming more and more numerous and effective.

In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.

The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world.

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Local and national politics have now become irretrievably global because their economies are locked into the global system.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself.

The political game remains predominantly national. It is usually played as if national units were more independent economically than they actually are.

In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.

Obama represents one-world government, a.k.a. Neocolonialism. Presidents don't change anything locally - they only deal with foreign policy.

Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest. Just because we are a large country, we cannot be arrogant and think that we can ignore others. We live in a different era. Terrorism is global and can come from even remote countries. International summits and organizations like WTO take decisions which will bind us and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.