Human dignity requires a new global yet locally bounded political principle

Evidence

Antisemitism (not merely the hatred of Jews), imperialism (not merely conquest), totalitarianism (not merely dictatorship)—one after the other, one more brutally than the other, have demonstrated that human dignity needs a new guarantee which can be found only in a new political principle, in a new law on earth, whose validity this time must comprehend the whole of humanity while its power must remain strictly limited, rooted in and controlled by newly defined territorial entities. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 14

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘new law on earth’ that is global in reach yet locally limited connects to the imagined-community-of-the-nation and statelessness scaffolding in the reader’s toolkit.