Tuesday, December 09, 2008

and now for a world government...,

Financial Times | Barack Obama, America’s president-in-waiting, does not share the Bush administration’s disdain for international agreements and treaties. In his book, The Audacity of Hope, he argued that: “When the world’s sole superpower willingly restrains its power and abides by internationally agreed-upon standards of conduct, it sends a message that these are rules worth following.” The importance that Mr Obama attaches to the UN is shown by the fact that he has appointed Susan Rice, one of his closest aides, as America’s ambassador to the UN, and given her a seat in the cabinet.

A taste of the ideas doing the rounds in Obama circles is offered by a recent report from the Managing Global Insecurity project, whose small US advisory group includes John Podesta, the man heading Mr Obama’s transition team and Strobe Talbott, the president of the Brookings Institution, from which Ms Rice has just emerged.

The MGI report argues for the creation of a UN high commissioner for counter-terrorist activity, a legally binding climate-change agreement negotiated under the auspices of the UN and the creation of a 50,000-strong UN peacekeeping force. Once countries had pledged troops to this reserve army, the UN would have first call upon them.

These are the kind of ideas that get people reaching for their rifles in America’s talk-radio heartland. Aware of the political sensitivity of its ideas, the MGI report opts for soothing language. It emphasises the need for American leadership and uses the term, “responsible sovereignty” – when calling for international co-operation – rather than the more radical-sounding phrase favoured in Europe, “shared sovereignty”. It also talks about “global governance” rather than world government.

But some European thinkers think that they recognise what is going on. Jacques Attali, an adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, argues that: “Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.” As far as he is concerned, some form of global government cannot come too soon. Mr Attali believes that the “core of the international financial crisis is that we have global financial markets and no global rule of law”.

So, it seems, everything is in place. For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is an argument, an opportunity and a means to make serious steps towards a world government.

27 comments:

Anonymous said...

cheap ambien no prescription generic ambien online + no prescription - taking half ambien pill

Anonymous said...

buy xanax online no prescription cheap buy xanax online consultation - buy xanax online discover card

Anonymous said...

diazepam dog can you buy diazepam usa - buy valium online topix

Anonymous said...

buy valium online valium pill markings - valium effects kids

Anonymous said...

diazepam online diazepam dosage to get high - buy valium online in the usa

Anonymous said...

buy ativan common uses ativan - using ativan sleep aid

Anonymous said...

ativan without prescription ativan 2mg tablet - cheap lorazepam no prescription

Anonymous said...

buy xanax xanax side effects in elderly - xanax or klonopin

Anonymous said...

diazepam online rectal diazepam dosage children - diazepam 2mg back spasms

Anonymous said...

order lorazepam ativan generic brand name - ativan iv push side effects

Anonymous said...

buy lorazepam online ativan beer - ativan high mg

Anonymous said...

buy soma carisoprodol schedule iv - order generic soma

Anonymous said...

buy ambien online street value for 10mg ambien - ambien depression medication

Anonymous said...

soma for sale legal buy soma online - carisoprodol 350 mg and xanax

Anonymous said...

soma 350 mg drug interactions with soma - carisoprodol recreational use

Anonymous said...

buy soma buy soma online texas - soma online radio

Anonymous said...

buy ambien online ambien cr online no prescription - ambien cr 12.5 for sale

Anonymous said...

Cold Sore Medication New order provigil online - provigil for sale http://www.bearmania.net/, [url=http://www.bearmania.net/]modafinil price [/url]

Anonymous said...

2, ambien cost - purchase ambien online http://www.opensourcewcms.com/#purchase-ambien-online , [url=http://www.opensourcewcms.com/#cheap-ambien-no-prescription ]cheap ambien no prescription [/url]

Anonymous said...

tni cheap clomid for sale - order clomid http://www.clomidonlinediscount.net/#cheap-clomid, [url=http://www.clomidonlinediscount.net/#cheap-clomid]order clomid online no prescription [/url]

Anonymous said...

6, buy klonopin - clonazepam without rx http://www.klonopinsaleonline.com/#buy-klonopin, [url=http://www.klonopinsaleonline.com/#klonopin-for-sale]klonopin for sale[/url]

Anonymous said...

2013 Purchase Sumatriptan - order imitrex no prescription http://www.cheapimitrexbuy.net/#imitrex-online, [url=http://www.cheapimitrexbuy.net/#imitrex-price]Cheap Imitrex[/url]

Anonymous said...

ny, price of plavix - generic plavix cost http://www.plavixonlineorder.com/#generic-plavix-cost , [url=http://www.plavixonlineorder.com/#purchase-plavix ]purchase plavix [/url]

Anonymous said...

c, cheap celexa online - cheap celexa no prescription http://www.cheapcelexaoffers.net/, [url=http://www.cheapcelexaoffers.net/]buy cheap celexa[/url]

Anonymous said...

2, [url=http://www.zolofthelpsleep.net/]Buy Sertraline[/url] - Zoloft For Sale - buy sertraline without prescription http://www.zolofthelpsleep.net/.

Anonymous said...

6, [url=http://www.cheapzoloftrx.net/] Sertraline Price [/url] - Zoloft Cost - zoloft online http://www.cheapzoloftrx.net/ .

Anonymous said...

14, [url=http://www.320ys.com/] Buy Accutane[/url] - Generic Accutane - accutane without rx http://www.320ys.com/ .