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The Long March Out of the 20th Century

As temporal segments, centuries are usually arbitrary ways of measuring the past. Today, however, they tend to be redefined in terms of events and historical watersheds. Thus, most historians saw the end of the Cold War as marking the closing of the 20th century, and compressed the century into a significantly shorter time-span going from the beginning of WWI to the collapse of the Soviet Union. By the time the first major war broke out in 1914, the Eurocentric system of nation-states—what Carl Schmitt called the jus publicum Europaeum—was definitively over. Only because of the Bolshevik revolution and the subsequent...