The Deficits of Democracy and the Need for a New Utopia - An Introduction -- Fragile World Order and a Global War of Disintegration -- The State as a Forced Community - Burdens from the Past in the Conception of Statehood -- Separatism and Self-Determination - Newly Interpreted and Newly Defined -- Freedom of Political Association - The Basic Concept -- Extended Freedom of Political Association - The Neocratic "Divisional Democracy" -- Political and Moral Objections -- A Quick Guide to Peaceful Secession - The Case of Catalonia -- Model States and Guarantor States -- The Long March to New Freedom -- A New Experience of Politics and a New Contest of Political Systems. .