Notes
[1] The term ‘postmodern’ is borrowed from Robert R. Cooper, who defines the postmodern world as one where the ‘state system of the modern world is … collapsing … into greater order than disorder’. According to Cooper, the foundation of Postmodern Europe lies with the Treaty of Rome (1957), which he views as a ‘conscious and successful attempt to go beyond the nation state’, and the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, which ‘was born of the failures, wastes and absurdities of the Cold War’. See Cooper (Citation2003).