We have argued that the international trade order should be designed to accord with the nature of Statecraft in each epoch, and that the victors of war in the twentieth century have established a system that accords with their internal constitutional order. The existence of a link between trade and security in the modern era is controversial. Nevertheless, we have claimed that an international trade system that accords with modern Statecraft should have been put in place in the twentieth century regardless of its immediate actual contribution to the democracies' security needs. When, in 1950, Robert Schuman made the declaration that unity was required to make war “not only unthinkable but materially impossible,” he squarely endorsed the premise that integration of the important resources of the day, coal and steel, would contribute to collective security. The “United States of Europe” that he foresaw arising after a long and tortuous road would bind their constituent states in a partnership that would prevent war.