Confused on why you write Chellis "The Chalice and the Blade" Glendinning. Doing an internet search I see writings by Glendinning mentioned in same articles as Riane Eisler's excellent book "The Chalice and the Blade" which defacto supports political decentralization.

As I write here
http://www.vtcommons.org/blog/2007/11/12/secede-and-survive-women-and-se...
* In her book The Chalice and the Blade Riane Eisler writes of the partnership culture she envisions: ”As the consciousness of our linking with one another and our environment firmly takes hold, we can expect to see the old nation-state as a self-absorbed entity wither away. .. Small social units will be linked in matrices or networks for a variety of common ends, ranging all the way from the cooperative cultivation and harvesting of the oceans and space exploration to the sharing of knowledge and the advancement of the arts."