I am revisiting some ideas about the evolution of human society in the context of a world facing ecological disaster. Recent times have already shown clearly the failure of the "Nation" concept in the Middle East. A major lesson from that region and its recent wars and uprisings is that artificially drawn National boundaries are not based on reality when you look at how they ignore people and their natural communities.
People have many ways of identifying themselves and many times they have religious or ethnic identities that are stronger than any national loyalty.
This is not a new idea and it has been studied in depth. One example is World-systems theory
World-systems theory (also known as world-systems analysis or the world-systems perspective), a multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change, emphasizes the world-system (and not nation states) as the primary (but not exclusive) unit of social analysis.I use this example to point out that there are global views based on systems theory that give a different perspective. Read on below for more."World-system" refers to the inter-regional and transnational division of labor, which divides the world into core countries, semi-periphery countries, and the periphery countries. Core countries focus on higher skill, capital-intensive production, and the rest of the world focuses on low-skill, labor-intensive production and extraction of raw materials. This constantly reinforces the dominance of the core countries. Nonetheless, the system has dynamic characteristics, in part as a result of revolutions in transport technology, and individual states can gain or lose their core (semi-periphery, periphery) status over time. For a time, some countries become the world hegemon; during the last few centuries, as the world-system has extended geographically and intensified economically, this status has passed from the Netherlands, to the United Kingdom and (most recently) to the United States of America.