Farewell to Westphalia

Farewell to Westphalia: Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governance is a forthcoming book co-authored by Logos co-founder, Jarrad Hope, and the great Peter Ludlow, author of Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias.

It explores the shortcomings of the nation state, presenting sovereign cyberstates and network states as an alternative order for the post-Westphalian era. Physical and e-reader editions of the book will be available for purchase in early 2025 (preorders coming soon) but a version will also be made freely available – because ideas should never be caged behind a paywall.

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When they arrive, they will provide us relief from the failures of the Westphalian order, and they will offer creative alternatives for humans to govern themselves in effective-yet-self-sovereign ways. We should be optimistic about the promise of these new forms of governance. After all, we have nothing to lose but the tyranny of centralised governance, its corruption, and all of its barbed wire fences.