Refugees walk through a frozen field after crossing the border from Macedonia, near the village of Miratovac, Serbia Reuters/Marko DjuricaOne leg of a complicated travel schedule over the holidays imprisoned me in an airport lounge for 12 hours: caught in this liminal space, I began to think about the state, its sovereignty, and the idea of statelessness.
It is not the first time these thoughts have come around.
When the glamour of globalisation was the rage a decade or so ago, it was tempting to believe that – to invoke Leon Trotsky’s famous 1917 phrase – the world was on the edge …read more
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