The dangers of national secession are much greater in places without overarching entities like the EU and NATO to constrain the situation among the successor states. In such circumstances, unilateral claims of independence opposed by the national government or a sub-national unit often lead to a breakdown of trade and finance – and often to outright war, as we saw in the breakup of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and most recently, Sudan.
国家分裂的危险在没有欧盟和北约等支配实体约束各后续国家局面的情况下会大大增加。在这样的环境中，被国家政府或亚国家单元反对的单方面宣布独立常常会导致贸易和金融决裂——还常常导致大战，苏联、南斯拉夫以及最近的苏丹解体都是明证。