Introduction - problems and benefits of World Government

The idea of world government has not received a good press for many years. It

tends to make most of us think of Stalinist dictators and fascist domination of

the globe. I wish to argue, though, that there is a viable form of democratic

world government which could bring many benefits.

A democratic world government that really worked would lead to a major increase

in the freedom enjoyed by all people on the planet. It would also make more

equitable the international balance of power which currently so heavily favours

the rich developed nations and their citizens at the expense of the much larger

numbers of citizens in the underdeveloped world.

The billion-dollar question is, though, whether there could be a form of

democratic world government which was workable and sustainable, not inefficient

and expensive, and above all which was fair?

Conventional ideas about world government, which typically picture it in the

form of a global parliament passing universal laws in order to create an

identikit legal framework for all world citizens, suffer from three severe

problems. Firstly, the near-impossibility of persuading all o

country need possess a huge number of such weapons as long as the collective

So say, for example, that a generalised human rights law had been passed by the

The laws, although couched in general terms, would be very real. A World Court

initial core of member-countries at each step would be made up of the mature

control of the individual owning countries. However in circumstances in which an

the assumption that democracy is acceptable and desirable within all cultures.

against the world government line and thus eventually force its members to face

world population because that would immediately raise the twin dangers of global

break out between any two countries, the standard procedure of global-sampling

degree, making it difficult for them to have grounds for resisting popular

that transgressions of unpopular global laws would commence fairly rapidly.

overwhelm them and enforce peace. In effect this would be an active version of

current activities or in a new law which it had enacted locally. Then the world

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