Beyond global governance : prospects for global government / James A. Yunker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yunker, James A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International organization.

Physical Description:

xiii, 129 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : University Press Of America, [2014]

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Beyond Global Governance: Prospects for Global Government 1

Governance without Government 1

A New Opportunity? 3

"Traditional" World Government Proposals 5

A New Approach to World Government 8

The Chicken or the Egg? 12

A Stable and Benign "New World Order"? 13

2 Recent Consideration of World Government in the IR Literature: A Critical Appraisal 20

Introduction 20

IR Theory and World Government 23

The Inevitability Proposition 26

Between the U.N. and the Omnipotent World State 32

Conclusion 41

3 Evolutionary World Government 50

Introduction 50

A Brief History of World Government 52

A Brief History of Socialism 58

Recent Developments in World Federalist Thought 63

Limited versus Unlimited World Government 66

Prospects for Global Economic Equality 69

The Case for (Limited) Federal World Government 71

4 From National Sovereignty to Global Government: Is There a Plausible Transition Path? 78

A Pragmatic Plan toward World Government 79

What Can World Federalists Do? 88

Conclusion 105

5 Should the United States Champion World Government? 107

The Omnipotent World State 109

Limited World Government 114

A Global Marshall Plan 117

Hegemony versus Guidance 119.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761863591

9780761863595

OCLC:

871671231