Disorder or superpower dominance are both likelier outcomes than a “spontaneous order” of middle powers organised by occasional and varying overlaps of interest, says the Financial Times' Martin Sandbu. LONDON: Vaclav Havel’s essay “The Power of the Powerless” is probably not a set text in many, if any, high schools around Europe. It should be. A study of the importance of truth and reason in the face of reality-denying forces, it is a buttress to the edifice of Europe’s Enlightenment tradition.