Rethinking World Government: A New Approach
by James A. Yunker

This groundbreaking volume issues a powerful challenge to conventional thinking about international relations. According to conventional thinking, world government would be undesirable because it might develop into global tyranny, as well as almost certainly entailing bureaucratic overload. The author, James A. Yunker, vigorously contests this conventional thinking on the basis of an innovative plan for a limited world government tentatively designated as the Federal Union of Democratic Nations. Although the proposed Federal Union would represent a quantum advance beyond the United Nations of today, it would at the same time operate under some key restraints, such as the reserved right of member nations to withdraw from the Union at their own discretion. Yunker argues that despite these restraints, the Federal Union of Democratic Nations would indeed make an essential contribution to the future security and prosperity of human civilization. He presents a strong case that the establishment of a world government would be beneficial to the ongoing economic and cultural globalization of the contemporary era. Visionary yet pragmatic, this book will be of special interest to those who wonder whether effective global governance might require effective global government.

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