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Autore: | Yunker James A |
Titolo: | The idea of world government : from ancient times to the twenty-first century / / James A. Yunker |
Pubblicazione: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (147 p.) |
Disciplina: | 341.2/109 |
Soggetto topico: | International organization - History |
International relations - Political aspects | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [122]-124) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Historical antecedents; 2 From Perpetual Peace to the Great War; 3 From the Treaty of Versailles to the nuclear age; 4 The postwar world government boom; 5 The post-Cold War era; 6 Is there a future for world government?; Notes; Select bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | The notion of a single political organization encompassing the whole of humanity-a world state-has intrigued mankind since earliest recorded history. This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of the history of world government, and questions whether political globalization, in the form of a federal world government, could and should complement the ongoing processes of economic and cultural globalization. While the potential peacekeeping advantage of such a state is obvious, the consensus judgment has always been against it, because it could lead to totalitarian t |
Titolo autorizzato: | The idea of world government |
ISBN: | 1-136-79436-0 |
1-136-79437-9 | |
1-283-24189-7 | |
9786613241894 | |
0-203-82647-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910826280903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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