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
22 - Conclusion
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
The path-breaking achievements of the past century offer grounds for cautious hope. Over the coming decades, economic and technological interdependence will continue to intensify, binding the interests of the world’s peoples even more tightly together than today. As nations and regions find themselves increasingly “in the same boat,” win-win solutions among them are likely to become more self-evidently attractive. To be sure, the possibility of failure is ever-present and very real. Building more effective instruments for planet-level governance will prove exceedingly hard, and we can expect plenty of disheartening setbacks along the way. But the evidence from the past, and the plausible trajectory of challenges and incentives that await us in the coming century, suggest that it can be done.
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- Planet in PerilHumanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them, pp. 324 - 328Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022