this sense, America and the world itself need a new refugee republic. It would become a mirror of the world which is to some extent still pre-political and partially post-political in a time that has abandoned its visions and its ideological super-structure of the modern in favor of a little defined disposition towards relative positioning; in a world where diverging trends of globalization have led to retribalization (ethnicization and regionalization). As Joseph Nye observed, the world has not melted into one village but rather consists of villages that are moving closer together and have lost their protective distance from each other: geographical isolation vanished in the fog of information. Many one-family homes are threatened to be turned into one gigantic apartment complex. Based on the sharing of differences, connected by common fate, experiences, and interests, as well as a high-speed data network, Refugee Republic will have to arbitrate between cultural multiplicity and formulate fundamentally necessary views and changes of the state principle, of collectivism and individualism; changes needed by the rest of the world if it is to survive. As a hyper-cultural, hyper-lingual, and multi-ethnic, trans-global net-state, Refugee Republic would present the opportunity to fine-tune international law and ordinances, decisions and ideals of the UN, and to implement them as a model. Above all, it will develop a contemporary ubiquitous understanding of human rights and duties and try to implement them. The constituting factor is being human under adverse conditions a situation more and more threatening to become the norm for the rest of the world. The "multiplicity gone wild" lamented by Ralf Dahrendorf describes a fate that the Refugee Republic already confronts with the utmost consequence. This unique supranational and supraterritorial state deserves membership and corresponding representation in the UN, as well as other internationa...
