Significant models of the past—especially the pre-satellite past—had been nationally oriented in character, based on the aspiration or hope or grueling fact of a national “bubble of identity,” inside...

Significant models of the past—especially the pre-satellite past—had been nationally oriented in character, based on the aspiration or hope or grueling fact of a national “bubble of identity,” inside which each state more or less sets the rules and controls or tolerates a set of narratives within its borders.