After the Scramble for Africa in which Europeans basically chopped up Africa into their empires, the world was in a situation where not that many sovereign nation-states had existed. The fall of the Central Powers in WWI, rapid decolonization after WWII, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union basically fragmented these empires/superstates into the hundreds of sovereign nation-states that exist today.
Now here are my questions:
-1. After the Scramble for Africa, is there any way that Europe could have held on to their possessions to the point where they still don't have sovereignty to this day? They don't have to be strictly colonial.
-2. If this is possible how can they achieve it? Which of the European nations would likely keep their possessions to this day compared to others.
NOTE: And yes, I know that the Soviet Union could have survived until today so I would like to keep the focus on the other European colonial nations.
Now here are my questions:
-1. After the Scramble for Africa, is there any way that Europe could have held on to their possessions to the point where they still don't have sovereignty to this day? They don't have to be strictly colonial.
-2. If this is possible how can they achieve it? Which of the European nations would likely keep their possessions to this day compared to others.
NOTE: And yes, I know that the Soviet Union could have survived until today so I would like to keep the focus on the other European colonial nations.