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In The Breakdown of Nations, Leopold Kohr shows that throughout history, people who have lived •In small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. He argues that virtually all our political and social problems would be greatly diminished if the world’s major countries were to dissolve back into the small states from which they sprang. Rather than making ever larger political unions, in the mistaken belief that this will bring peac!3 and security, we should minimize the aggregation of power by returning to a patchwork of small, relatively powerless states, where leaders are accessible to and responsive to the people.