James A. Yunker

Beyond Global Governance (eBook, ePUB)

Prospects for Global Government

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761863618
• Artikelnr.: 41061362

Autorenporträt

James A. Yunker is professor of economics at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. Author of a dozen books and approximately 90 articles in the professional literature, his special interest is in subjecting controversial policy issues to balanced, reasoned analysis.

Inhaltsangabe

, Preface
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, Abstracts and Acknowledgements
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1
, Beyond Global Governance: Prospects for Global Government
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, Governance without Government
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, A New Opportunity?
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, "Traditional" World Government Proposals
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, A New Approach to World Government
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, The Chicken or the Egg?
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, A Stable and Benign "New World Order"?
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2
, Recent Consideration of World Government in the IR Literature: A Critical
Appraisal
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, Introduction
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, IR Theory and World Government
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, The Inevitability Proposition
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, Between the U.N. and the Omnipotent World State
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, Conclusion
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3
, Evolutionary World Government
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, Introduction
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, A Brief History of World Government
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, A Brief History of Socialism
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, Recent Developments in World Federalist Thought
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, Limited versus Unlimited World Government
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, Prospects for Global Economic Equality
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, The Case for (Limited) Federal World Government
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4
, From National Sovereignty to Global Government: Is There a Plausible
Transition Path?
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, A Pragmatic Plan toward World Government
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, What Can World Federalists Do?
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, Conclusion
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5
, Should the United States Champion World Government?
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, The Omnipotent World State
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, Limited World Government
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, A Global Marshall Plan
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, Hegemony versus Guidance
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, Index
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, About the Author
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