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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791035403321

Autore

Yunker James A.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7618-6361-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Disciplina

341.2

Soggetti

International organization

Globalization - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

BEYOND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE; 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

IntroductionA 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

Sommario/riassunto

In these 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.