A return to the world of Hobbes

Commentary feature. Feature forms part of a FT Comment series 'Rethinking Europe'. Prominent Europeans and FT columnists wrote a provocative series of articles on how to redesign the European Union in October 2011.

Philip Stephens suggests that the era of multilateralism is giving way to a new age of nationalisms in Europe and the wider world.

Other features in the series include:
+ John Major: The price of the drift to fiscal union
+ Giuliano Amato and Federico Ghizzoni: Why it’s worth keeping the EU dream alive
+ Jean-Claude Piris: An EU architect calls for two-speed union

ESO: Background information: Friends and foes of EU treaty change clash in first duel http://www.europeansources.info/record/friends-and-foes-of-eu-treaty-change-clash-in-first-duel/

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