Thanks to the new century, small nations are being more empowered to gain their voice in international community. It is interesting to view this in terms of a new world order where bigger states will not necessarily have the competitive advantage and dominant voice over international affairs. In the new multi-polar world of the 21 st century, accepting diversity and equality of nations becomes a more important concept.
Why shouldn't a Europe that has solved such enormous problems also take on the challenge of developing and defending a cosmopolitan order on the basis of international law?įrom the recent postmodern history we have seen that the old ways of dealing with violent conflicts through the single state power proved to be in most cases violent and tragic. But the level of social justice that the welfare state has attained should not be abandoned in any future politics of the taming of capitalism. At the level of the national state, however, it has been forced into the defensive. For a long time the European welfare state was also an example for others. The EU presents itself as a form of "governing beyond the national state," that could serve as an example as apost-national constellation. We remind ourselves that in the second half of the 20th century, Europe has found prototypical solutions for two problems. All of us imagine a peaceful, cooperative Europe that is open to other cultures and capable of dialogue. It is easy to agree on things that have no binding force.
One could put it this way: the artistic will of polyphony is a will to combine many wills, a will to the event. If one is to talk about individual will, then it is precisely in Polyphony that a combination of several individual wills takes place, that the boundaries of individual will can be in principle exceeded. The essence of polyphony lies precisely in the fact that the voices remain independent and, as such, are combined in a unity of a higher order than in homophony.
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