 According to the author, what is the major factor that will determine if modern nations will adopt a replica of the Hanseatic League?
From the middle of the 13th century, and for some 300 years after, many settlements dotted along this route formed the prosperous Hanseatic League, a European trading confederation of market towns, before the rise of the nation state led to its dissolution. In the late 1300s, Chaucer wrote about characters travelling to Jerusalem, and others who came from Europe; and it was at exactly this point that the Hanseatic League slowly started to coalesce, eventually influencing our isles. The League is most easily understood as a loose federation of cities that acted together in self-interest to promote trade. The cities involved in the Hanseatic League are found along the Baltic and North Sea coasts, and slightly inland too.
 Whether a model can exist without creating further disparities among citizens
 Whether a model can exist without creating further disparities among citizens  Whether citizens can avoid war and hording of resources without permanent borders  Whether urban areas can accommodate the preferences of rural areas  Whether urban and rural denizens can orient goals based on shared values