INTRODUCTION 6 // 1 BEFORE THE BIRTH OF THE NATION STATE: UNLEARNED AND NATURAL SELF GOVERNANCE 8 // 1.1 From Human Nature to the Self - Governance .. 8 // 1.2 Medieval World: Static but Differentiated Space 13 // 1.3 From Spiritual towards Material Components // of the Existence 18 // 2 RISE OF THE NATION STATE 21 // 2.1 The Birth of the Great Protector 21 // 2.2 Industrial Revolution 24 // 2.3 Nation State : Outer Homogeneity and Inner // Heterogeneity 26 // 2.4 The Growth of Nationalism 29 // 2.5 Disastrous Impacts of Nationalism 32 // 3 TOWARDS A CONTEMPORARY FORM OF THE NATION STATE 38 // 3.1 Fordist Period 38 // 3.2 Public Administration in the Nation States 41 // 3.3 State Administration and Self - Government in the Nation States 45 // 3.4 Subsidiarity : A Purification of Traditional Principle from the Dust 48 // 3.5 Territorial Development: on the Road to the // Duality of European Space 51 // 3.6 European Duality Fortified 64 // 3 4 GLOBALIZATION 67 // 4.1 Post-Fordism 67 // 4.2 What is Globalisation? 70 // 4.3 Social and Economic Impacts of Globalisation 72 // 4.4 Globalisation and Dissolution of the Nation State 76 // 4.5 On the Relation between Multinationals and Regions 78 // 4.6 Networks Instead of Organizations and Projects Instead of Strategies 81 // 4.7 Post - Fordist Individuals and Territories 86 // 4.8 Atomization and Uncertaintisation of the Society 89 // 4.9 From the Stable Conception of Identity to the Fluid One 93 //
5 MEDIA: A ONE-WAY MEDIATOR 97 // 5.1 Media: More Than a Fourth Power 97 // 5.2 TV Reporting as a Powerful Instrument of the // Formation of Virtual Reality 101 // 5.3 Media and Consumerism 104 // 5.4 Homo Consumensis: The Aim of Economic and Political Elites 106 // 6 THE RESURRECTION OF SELF - GOVERNANCE AND SELF - GOVERNMENT 111 // 6.1 Spontaneous Fulfillment of Self - Governing Gaps 111 // 6.2 On the Naturalness of the Return of SelfGovernment and Self-Governance 113 // 6.3 Personnel Issues Related to SelfGovernment 118 // 4 6.4 Vanishing Borders: The Disappearance of the Artifact 121 // 6.5 Towards the Higher Rank of Spatial Order // Supported by Conscious Self - Governance 128 // 7 INSTEAD OF CONCLUSION 139 // 7.1 General Evolutionary Tendencies 139 // 7.2 Towards a Transformed Rank Differentiation of Space 144 // 7.3 On the Glocal Nature of Current Societal Problems and the Heritage of the Nation State 149 // 7.4 Some Proposals Related to Contemporary Societal Problems or the Way to Conscious SelfGovernance via ABCDE Agenda 152 // REFERENCES 159 // APPENDICES 163