Zizek's article "Taking on America," which Erin references below, contains some remarkable separatist rhetoric. Consider this geopolitical recommendation: "Europe should move fast to ascertain itself as an autonomous ideological, political and economic force with its own priorities [original emphasis]. The Left should unabashedly appropriate the slogan of unified Europe as a counterforce to Americanised globalism." What Zizek really proposes here is a Second Cold War, with a Left-dominated Europe assuming the oppositional mantle previously held by the fallen U.S.S.R. There's no doubt in my mind, either, that Zizek imagines the European Union morphing into a new and glorious Union of European Socialist Republics as this cold war unfolds. I'd best nip down to 10 Downing Street and tell Comrade Blair to start packing; Zizek's new world order has no room for centrist Dubya-sympathizers like him.