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Can humanity achieve collective self-government in a highly interdependent world? Catastrophic climate change, biodiversity loss, pandemics, war and displacement, the dangers of nuclear weapons and new technologies, and persistent poverty and inequality are among the global challenges that expose the weaknesses of existing international institutions as well as the profound disparities of power and vulnerability that exist among the world's people.
The Universal Republic: A Realistic Utopia? examines whether a democratic world state is a feasible and desirable solution to the problem of establishing effective and just governance on the planet we share. While this question has haunted thinkers and doers for centuries, this book opens up novel perspectives by putting the powerful methods and rich data of contemporary social science into the service of a systematic analysis of several key dimensions of the broader theme. The first part of the book shows why a democratic world state -a universal republic- is possible: why it can be achieved, and how it can endure without generating a frightful global despotism. The second part of the book shows why the universal republic is desirable, by exploring how it can help bring under our collective control the persistent sources of coercion, harm, and other processes that affect us deeply across national borders. By combining insights from political philosophy and empirical political science, this work sheds new light on a crucial question of our time: how to bring about a more democratic world.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction
Part I. Is the universal republic possible?
2: Arguments on possibility
3: Would the universal republic be viable?
4: Is the universal republic achievable?
Part II. Is the universal republic desirable?
5: Arguments on desirability
6: Universal republic or confederation of democracies?
7: Universal republic or polycentric democracy?
8: Conclusions
Appendices
Appendix I: List of democratic regimes
Appendix II: Sources of data
Appendix III: Goodness-of-fit statistics
Appendix IV: Regression tables
References
Index
