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Because of Europe's continuing economic and political woes, we have seen the corrosive revival of nationalism on the continent, and the jockeying for influence and power that it entails. So, who or what can blunt this trend and 'mobilize unity' once again? According to this paper, it's not Germany. The federated continent it seemingly wants, along with its parallel ‘flexible diplomatic alignments', will sustain a balance of power system that’s too complex to manage, and that will most likely breakdown. No, the paper concludes -- the true manager of Europe’s nationalism and balance of power impulses, if not its outright mobilizer of unity, could be the Atlantic Alliance -- i.e., a next-step NATO that isn't necessarily 'global', but that acts as a needed geopolitical pacifier within Europe itself.