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Title World governance : do we need it, is it possible, what could it (all) mean? / edited by Jovan Babić and Petar Bojanić
Published Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 360 pages)
Contents Foreword -- Introduction -- (Re)imaging the Global Governance -- Governing the Globe: What Is the Best We Can Do? -- World Governance: Beyond Utopia -- A Subsidiary and Federal World Republic: Remarks on Democracy in the Age of Globalization -- The Resurgent Idea of World Government -- Secession as a Crime Against the World State -- World Governance: Can it Happen in a Good Way? Not Likely! -- Approaching Perpetual Peace: Kant's Defence of a League of States and His Ideal of a World Federation -- Kant's Reasons Against a Global State: Popular Sovereignty as a Principle of International Law -- Kant's Vision, Europe, and a Global Federation -- Cosmopolitanism: Global Governance without a Global State -- The Structure of Peace -- The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions -- The International Law of Piracy -- "Pirates" and the World as a Closed Commercial State -- The Right to Be Subject to International Law -- World Government and the International Criminal Court -- Global Civil Society and International Morality -- Global Citizenship as the Completion of Cosmopolitanism -- About the Authors
Summary In the age of globalization and with increased interdependence in the world today, there is a question we may have to raise: Do we need, and could we attain, a world government capable of ensuring peace and facilitating worldwide well-being in a just and efficient way? There are obvious and strong arguments in favour of viable and sustainable world governance, even for a unified world state. Two of them seem to be especially strong: security, which is becoming more and more a matter of joint ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject International cooperation.
International Cooperation
Social & political philosophy.
International relations.
International law.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Gouvernance mondiale.
Mondialisme.
Droit international.
Ethique.
Philosophie politique.
Paix.
International cooperation
Internationellt samarbete.
Form Electronic book
Author Babić, Jovan.
Bojanić, Petar.
LC no. 2010467985
ISBN 9781443823029
1443823023
9786612776618
6612776617
1282776614
9781282776616