I've had this notion. After the second world war, international forces shaped both an organization of states, and a state. The second is an example of particularity, the first an instance of principles. Inevitably, conflict is the result of such an opposition.
It is right for me to say that the political order of the world should perish before I am destroyed. It is not right for me to say that the political order of the world should perish before my nation perishes. The political order of the world is the ground of the possibility of the individual state, and the individual state exists to protect the individual soul.