Book contents
- Planet in Peril
- Reviews
- Planet in Peril
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Fictional Vignettes
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Existential Threats: The Four Most Pressing Dangers Facing Humankind
- Part II Strategies and Obstacles: The Solutions We Need, and What’s Preventing Them from Being Realized
- Part III Sensible Steps for Today’s World: Powerful Measures We Can Implement Right Away
- Part IV The Middle-Term Goal: New International Tools for the Late Twenty-First Century
- Part V The Long-Term Goal: Envisioning a Mature System of Global Governance for the Twenty-Second Century
- 18 Global Government in a World of Democracies and Dictatorships: What It Might Look Like in 2150
- 19 Keeping the System Accountable and Fair
- 20 Collective Military Security and Economic Sanctions: How to Handle Rogues, Cheaters, and Fanatics
- 21 What Could Go Wrong?
- 22 Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
18 - Global Government in a World of Democracies and Dictatorships: What It Might Look Like in 2150
from Part V - The Long-Term Goal: Envisioning a Mature System of Global Governance for the Twenty-Second Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2022
- Planet in Peril
- Reviews
- Planet in Peril
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Fictional Vignettes
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Existential Threats: The Four Most Pressing Dangers Facing Humankind
- Part II Strategies and Obstacles: The Solutions We Need, and What’s Preventing Them from Being Realized
- Part III Sensible Steps for Today’s World: Powerful Measures We Can Implement Right Away
- Part IV The Middle-Term Goal: New International Tools for the Late Twenty-First Century
- Part V The Long-Term Goal: Envisioning a Mature System of Global Governance for the Twenty-Second Century
- 18 Global Government in a World of Democracies and Dictatorships: What It Might Look Like in 2150
- 19 Keeping the System Accountable and Fair
- 20 Collective Military Security and Economic Sanctions: How to Handle Rogues, Cheaters, and Fanatics
- 21 What Could Go Wrong?
- 22 Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter sketches a potential architecture of global federal government, framing it as the end-goal of a century-long, incremental process of reforms and innovations in governance. Humankind, in this scenario, will be strongly motivated to undertake these innovations because of escalating dangers and crises that can only be handled effectively through stronger forms of global cooperation and coordination. The key challenges here are: revamping the UN Security Council so it more accurately reflects the realities of global economic and military power; replacing the Security Council veto system with a new principle of weighted voting in all UN institutions, so that key policies can be implemented effectively; creating a world constitution to lay out the basic rules and principles through which the system will operate, as well as a world court to adjudicate disputes among the players; and establishing a UN Office for Emerging Technologies, a more dynamic WHO, and a dedicated UN Office for Climate Change Mitigation.
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- Planet in PerilHumanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them, pp. 263 - 288Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022