LONDON- As the twentieth century closes it appears more than ever to merit the French sociologist Raymond Aron’s description, “the century of total war”. Just before he died last year the great British philosopher Isaiah Berlin said, “it was the worst century that Europe ever had. Worse, I suspect, even than the days of the Huns”. And why? Because “in our modern age nationalism is not resurgent; it never died. Neither did racism. They are the most powerful movements in the world today cutting across many social systems”. He ended: “I am glad to be as old as I am”. In his book “Pandaemonium”, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, probably the U.S. Senate’s most illustrious intellectual, observes that today “there are just eight states on earth which both existed in 1914 and have not had their form of government changed by violence since then”. These are the U.S., Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa,...