Model States and Guarantor States

Abstract

There is hardly a serious political evil in the world that cannot be traced back to a lack of political civilization. A politically civilized world would be more peaceful, free, and fair, and, even more importantly, it would be at least as serious about problems of the future as about problems of the present. If there were a remedy for the deficits of political civilization, it would be almost a political panacea. Of course, this raises the question of the interdependence between freedom of political association and political civilization. It is clear that a world in which freedom of political association prevailed would be much more civilized than the existing one. But would first a higher level of political civilization have to be reached in order to realize freedom of political association or would it also be possible the other way around? Could freedom of political association be realized first, thereby raising political civilization to a higher level? It would be too simple an answer to confirm the latter.