Reading Dewey's "The Public and its Problems"

On State and Democracy:

At the other limit here are social groups so separated by rivers, seas and mountains, by strange languages and gods, that what one of them does—save in war—has no appreciable consequences for another. There is therefore no common interest, no public, and no need nor possibility of an inclusive state. The plurality of states is such a universal and notorious phenomenon that it is taken for granted. (Dewey, p.42)

‧How would Dewey see the declaration of Kosovo's independence, the conflits between the Serbs and Albanians, and the power relations among Serbia, Russia, the European Union, and the United States?

On Human Relationships and Communication:
The new era of human relationships in which we live is one marked by mass production for remote markets, by cable and telephone, by cheap printing, by railway and steam navigation. Only geographically did Columbus discover a new world. The actual new world has been generated in the last hundred years. Steam and electricity have done more to alter the conditions under which men associate together than all the agencies which affected human relationships before our time. (Dewey, p.141)