Beyond Global Governance

Prospects for Global Government

By (author) James A. Yunker

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Publication date:

05 May 2014

Length of book:

144 pages

Publisher

UPA

ISBN-13: 9780761863618

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.

	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
	About the Author

At its core Beyond Global Governance is a clarion call to take seriously the question of how the global system can be structured to overcome the primary problems faced by humankind. This book makes a serious and original contribution to the literature on global governance. Whether they agree with him or not, both the lay and the professional reader will find Yunker's style highly engaging and his argument challenging.