ABSTRACT
Nonterritorial, that is, global or regional, problems of resources, technology, production, population explosion, and depletion and pollution of our planet are intertwined with the nuclear homicide/suicide dimension of great power politics. The snail-like progress, if not regression, of the West European unification is depressing. So are the difficulties accompanying the effort to establish a greater US-Canadian economic and political intimacy although the logic of that effort may appear self-evident to many an outsider. Studying human nature and the resulting political action makes one very modest and undemanding. The choice between either territorial fusion (on a global or regional basis) or fission is actually wrongly posited; it cannot be expressed in such extreme terms, which practical politics and life have always abhorred. A very long process, then, of an intertwining of territorial parochialism and globalism (or regionalism) is to be expected. The process clearly will lack dramatic qualitative changes that could exhilarate a globalist and depress a parochialist—and vice versa.
