The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only when the shades of night are gathering, and so with the Beaumont Institute and the flagship quarterly The Valorem, we will honour the grand ancestors and achievements of our past with the maturity of our consciousness and seek to contribute to the revival of governing structures at the pan-European level beyond the strictures of the current status quo, seeking to explore the future of governance at the nexus of high-politics, culture, economics, and technology. Over two-thousand years of history have completed our understanding in hindsight of what has worked and what has not, and contemporary examples from across the gilded, high-aiming states of the Gulf to the rigid tenacity of East Asia and China have shown to us the potential of practical long-termist solutions cutting across the political, industrial, and financial spheres that inculcate the very best of European practices to great effect in those regions.

Our aims concern themselves with the realignment of the prerogatives of the European Union on its foundational principles, on the basis of the unification and pan-Europeanist reorientation of its tangible areas of policy and governance, with the thorough and full engagement of its high industrial, financial, and cultural classes in this project of exploring the practical application and development of the reorientation we propose as holding the key toward the future of governance in Europe. The unification of its chief industries, defense, geopolitics, and trade & scientific policies are necessary steps toward its world-historical revival and apogee that has been left unfinished since the decline and disappearance of the Roman Empire.

In a game of trans-national actors, wars on its distant frontiers, economic war via proxies and deceit, rising Euroscepticism, suspension of sovereignty across all spheres, we will have to learn from our history and the success of governing trends in other regions of the world. Which syntheses of governance work? What has not worked and what has to be practically achieved to overcome the dissensions of Europe across all spheres? Which structures are breaking down and which are winning? How to engage the inclusion of industrial, financial, and cultural elites in governance? Who has power over whom, and where will be able to be taken?