Sinais. "The coming of the micro-states"

Nota: este tipo de evolução, já defendo à muito tempo, vai provavelmente apanhar de supresa a presente "ordem mundial" e status-quos. Para o Liberalismo traz muitas oportunidades porque o estatismo social-democrata depara-se com a sua própria contradição. Se uns podem , todos podem e afinal de contas, é democrático. E se todos podem, não existe limite teórico à separação.

E só a mera possibildiade de tal acontecer, constituirá o único "check and balance" eficaz contra o centralismo democrático.

Os acontecimentos históricos de vez em quando ganham uma velocidade e inevitabilidade que supreende todos pondo em causa paradigmas que se pensavam definitivos (nunca o são , não é?). Tempos interessantes pela frente.

Via Yahoo: MOSCOW - As goes Montenegro, so goes Kosovo', Transdniestria, and South Ossetia?

As Montenegro officially declared independence this weekend, accepting the world's welcome into the community of nations, a handful of obscure "statelets" are demanding the same opportunity to choose their own destinies.

In the latest example, Transdniestria, a Russian-speaking enclave that won de facto independence in the early 1990s, declared last week that it will hold a Montenegro-style referendum in September as part of its campaign for statehood.

Experts fear that many "frozen conflicts" around the world - in which a territory has gained de facto independence through war but failed to win international recognition - could reignite as ethnic minorities demand the same right to self-determination that many former Yugoslav territories have been offered by the international community.

If such precedents are possible [in the former Yugoslavia], they will also be precedents in the post-Soviet space," President Putin told journalists Friday. "Why can Albanians in Kosovo have independence, but [Georgian breakaway republics] South Ossetia and Abkhazia can't? What's the difference?"

The United Nations' Charter mentions both the right of "self-determination" of peoples and the "territorial integrity" of states as bedrock principles of the world order. But these principles come into conflict when a separatist minority threatens to rupture an existing country."