The EU pretends to be a post-Enlightenment project, and you insist on saying it's an ancien régime project.
Ironically, Chomsky examines these very narratives --"post-Enlightment" and "ancien régime"-- in Hegemony or Survival (of Yurp and the USA since, oh, 1900). I happen to be in my first reading of it at the moment.
Next is Dallek's Nixon and Kissinger. hehehe. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
