Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • 21 - What Could Go Wrong?

  • from Part V - The Long-Term Goal: Envisioning a Mature System of Global Governance for the Twenty-Second Century
  • Michael D. Bess, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book:
    Planet in Peril
    Published online:
    13 October 2022
    Print publication:
    13 October 2022, pp 318-323

  • Summary

    Building and maintaining a global federal government won’t be easy: plenty of things could go awry along the way, and plenty more could go sour even after the government was up and running. The world’s peoples may respond to severe climate change by retrenching into regional or national enclaves. The global legislature could become gridlocked in a manner similar to the UN during the Cold War. One nation or group of nations could succeed in gaining unilateral control over the global government, resulting either in an Orwellian superstate or in a catastrophic planetary civil war. These scenarios form a perfectly real and plausible possibility for our collective future – and the coming generations will need to be ever-vigilant in their efforts to prevent them from happening.