Synopsis 

A global society can only survive if there also exists a global political authority controlling the globalised economy and ecology on which that society depends. The UN, as now constituted, with neither the legitimacy of a democratic institution nor the power to enforce its will on all national governments equally, is not designed for this function. This site is dedicated to rectifying that situation be it through radical UN reform or, through a new and democratic institution.

 

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Basic premise

 If a functioning international society is to survive another century, some sort of global political authority has to come into existence as a controlling mechanism for the globalised economy and ecology on which all nations are increasingly dependent. Behind the facade of the UN, which offers the appearance of having the potential to fill this role, lies the reality that it was specifically and primarily designed not to limit the sovereignty of its most powerful members. Without radical reform, it can never be more than the sum of its parts. As constituted today, it is not fit for the job required of it.

If the UN, in its present format, is not going to do the job, we are left with three choices :

• Alternative I: A World governed by a superpower (that will probably destroy millions of lives in getting to that position, and many more in the ensuing struggles of resentment.)
• Alternative II: The UN is taken over by an international political and corporate elite, selected from among the leaders of the most powerful nations and corporations. This elite will govern as an autocratic council and, like any other aristocracy, in its own interest.
• Alternative II: A UN radically reformed into a democratic world government (DWG) or, more probably, a newly constituted DWG, acting as a world governing authority, democratically elected directly by the people rather than appointed by national governemnts. Nation states, due to internal political pressures, will have ceded certain of their sovereign rights to this DWG. The most significant "rights" to be surrendered will be those of adversely impacting areas of the environment they hold in common with others and the right to wage war outside their borders.

This site is dedicated to achieving the third and democratic outcome.