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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.
Contents
Preface
Abstracts and Acknowledgements
1
Beyond Global Governance: Prospects for Global Government
Governance without Government
A New Opportunity?
"Traditional" World Government Proposals
A New Approach to World Government
The Chicken or the Egg?
A Stable and Benign "New World Order"?
2
Recent Consideration of World Government in the IR Literature: A Critical Appraisal
Introduction
IR Theory and World Government
The Inevitability Proposition
Between the U.N. and the Omnipotent World State
Conclusion
3
Evolutionary World Government
Introduction
A Brief History of World Government
A Brief History of Socialism
Recent Developments in World Federalist Thought
Limited versus Unlimited World Government
Prospects for Global Economic Equality
The Case for (Limited) Federal World Government
4
From National Sovereignty to Global Government: Is There a Plausible Transition Path?
A Pragmatic Plan toward World Government
What Can World Federalists Do?
Conclusion
5
Should the United States Champion World Government?
The Omnipotent World State
Limited World Government
A Global Marshall Plan
Hegemony versus Guidance
Index
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