Beyond Global Governance: Prospects for Global Government

James A. Yunker

doi:10.5771/9780761863618

Summary

In these ground-breaking essays, James A. Yunker issues a powerful challenge to conventional thinking on world government. Based on an innovative plan for a limited world government tentatively designated the “Federal Union of Democratic Nations,” this book envisions a legitimate world government a quantum leap beyond the United Nations of today. The Federal Union proposed would operate under some key restraints, such as a dual voting system in the world legislature, and two key reserved rights of the member nations: to withdraw from the Federal Union at their own unilateral discretion, and to maintain independent control over whatever military forces they feel are necessary to their national security. Yunker demonstrates how these restraints would minimize the possibility that the world government would result in such adverse outcomes as global tyranny, bureaucratic overload, or cultural homogenization.

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Edition: 1/2014
Copyright Year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-6359-5
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-6361-8
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 130
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Abstracts and Acknowledgements No access
1. Governance without Government No access
2. A New Opportunity? No access
3. "Traditional" World Government Proposals No access
4. A New Approach to World Government No access
5. The Chicken or the Egg? No access
6. A Stable and Benign "New World Order"? No access
1. Introduction No access
2. IR Theory and World Government No access
3. The Inevitability Proposition No access
4. Between the U.N. and the Omnipotent World State No access
5. Conclusion No access
1. Introduction No access
2. A Brief History of World Government No access
3. A Brief History of Socialism No access
4. Recent Developments in World Federalist Thought No access
5. Limited versus Unlimited World Government No access
6. Prospects for Global Economic Equality No access
7. The Case for (Limited) Federal World Government No access
1. A Pragmatic Plan toward World Government No access
2. What Can World Federalists Do? No access
3. Conclusion No access
1. The Omnipotent World State No access
2. Limited World Government No access
3. A Global Marshall Plan No access
4. Hegemony versus Guidance No access
Index No access Pages 124 - 129
About the Author No access Pages 130 - 130