Chapter 19 — Archipelago; where do the information platforms that are states live? The EU, Paragraph 11.2 (§19.00.11.02)
However, none of the above ought to be understood as invoking a linear development (e.g. as in Aristotle, from family to city-states, in the sense of moving from simpler to more complex forms) or an evolution, by selection or otherwise, that led to the EU. There was no following of rational steps on a state-formation ladder or any grand-scale design that caused the EU to come to be; rather, need and opportunity were in play here too.
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