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Still rather unclear what she's even talking about when she refers to the "disintegration of nation-states" that putatively occurred in the early 20th century.

The Eurocentrism of this book defies belief. She talks about the French Revolution as if the American Revolution never happened, and all of its ideas were new. Focusing heavily on autocratic states in WW II, I don't think the word "Japan" has appeared once so far. And, like a great many Germans, when she says "European" she means "French, German, and English," and when she says "global" she adds Russia and the US.