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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

Michael D. Bess
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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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 Peril
Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them
, pp. 263 - 288
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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