Labels: Eternal Vigilance
First, it is increasingly clear that the most difficult issues facing national governments are international in nature: there is global warming, a global financial crisis and a "global war on terror".
Ever since Woodrow Wilson, who believed that "the world must be made safe for democracy," every American president has furthered the cause of globalism. And since we're already in the habit of using the biggest, most powerful military in the world to enforce U.N. resolutions, the groundwork for some kind of world government has indeed already been laid. Rest assured that our 44th president will take the next step toward making it a reality.
Second, it could be done. The transport and communications revolutions have shrunk the world so that, as Geoffrey Blainey, an eminent Australian historian, has written: "For the first time in human history, world government of some sort is now possible." Mr Blainey foresees an attempt to form a world government at some point in the next two centuries, which is an unusually long time horizon for the average newspaper column.
But - the third point -- a change in the political atmosphere suggests that "global governance" could come much sooner than that. The financial crisis and climate change are pushing national governments towards global solutions, even in countries such as China and the U.S. that are traditionally fierce guardians of national sovereignty.
12/10/2008 |
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