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Beyond Global Governance

Prospects for Global Government

James A Yunker author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University Press of America

Published:5th May '14

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In these ground-breaking essays, James A. Yunker issues a powerful challenge to conventional thinking on world government. Based on an innovative plan for a limited world government tentatively designated the “Federal Union of Democratic Nations,” this book envisions a legitimate world government a quantum leap beyond the United Nations of today. The Federal Union proposed would operate under some key restraints, such as a dual voting system in the world legislature, and two key reserved rights of the member nations: to withdraw from the Federal Union at their own unilateral discretion, and to maintain independent control over whatever military forces they feel are necessary to their national security. Yunker demonstrates how these restraints would minimize the possibility that the world government would result in such adverse outcomes as global tyranny, bureaucratic overload, or cultural homogenization.

James Yunker offers in this work a provocative and nuanced argument for limited world government. His account is particularly notable for the sustained attention it gives to tyranny concerns, and for its accessible application of economic principles to issues related to global poverty and economic inequality. The book should be of interest to students of global governance and international relations more generally, but also those concerned with some possible means of addressing sustainable and globally comprehensive economic development. -- Luis Cabrera, Senior Lecturer in International Studies, University of Birmingham
At its core Beyond Global Governance is a clarion call to take seriously the question of how the global system can be structured to overcome the primary problems faced by humankind.  This book makes a serious and original contribution to the literature on global governance.  Whether they agree with him or not, both the lay and the professional reader will find Yunker's style highly engaging and his argument challenging. -- Andrew Strauss, Widener University School of Law

ISBN: 9780761863595

Dimensions: 234mm x 162mm x 17mm

Weight: 340g

144 pages