The League of Nations was called "man's last, best hope." It was created after the end of "the war to end all wars," which we have, ironically enough, now termed World War I. After the LoN clearly failed (cough cough...World War II...cough cough), the United Nations took its place. Surely that would do the trick! Right. Well, World War III hasn't technically occurred, but the decades since WWII have certainly been marked by conflicts, police actions, U.N. "peacekeeping," and wars on things like "terror." International hostilities have been anything but alleviated. Practically every part of the world has taken its turn either being at war or on the brink thereof. The European Union, while on a smaller scale and with more explicitly economic designs, was created for similar reasons as the LoN and the UN. The EU was created with the dystopian dream of living in a world that is above things like greed, discrimination, a...