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Revisiting an Austrian academic's call for smaller borders.
This New York Times article, entitled "Kohr Principles" has excellent material for students to think about the spatial organization of political interactions. Leopold Kohr argued that size matters--and unlike most that argue for the same, he argued that political entities most not be too large. In the map above, Kohr envisioned a Europe without countries large enough to dream of world domination. So, how does a country's size shape its politics? Is there an ideal size for internal unity and external security?
