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World State: How a Democratically-Elected World Government Can Replace the UN and Bring Peace

World State: How a Democratically-Elected World Government Can Replace the UN and Bring Peace

by Nicholas Hagger
World State: How a Democratically-Elected World Government Can Replace the UN and Bring Peace
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World State: How a Democratically-Elected World Government Can Replace the UN and Bring Peace

World State: How a Democratically-Elected World Government Can Replace the UN and Bring Peace

by Nicholas Hagger

Overview

Since 1945 the UN has failed to prevent 162 wars and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and there is talk of a Third World War involving the Middle East, the Baltic states and North Korea. Competing nation-states seem powerless to achieve world peace under the UN. Continuing a tradition that began with the 1945 atomic bombs, Nicholas Hagger follows Truman, Einstein, Churchill, Eisenhower, Gandhi, Russell, J.F. Kennedy and Gorbachev in calling for a democratic, partly-federal World State with sufficient authority to abolish war, enforce disarmament, combat famine, disease and poverty, and solve the world’s financial and environmental problems. In World State Hagger sets out the historical background and the failure of the current political order of nation-states. He presents the ideal World State - its seven federal goals, its structure and the benefits it would bring - and sets out a manifesto that would turn the UN General Assembly into an elected lower house of a democratic World State. He details the constituencies for a World Parliamentary Assembly and World Senate, and provides the data for his calculations in full appendices. A companion volume, World Constitution, contains a Constitution for a ‘United Federation of the World’ that can be laid before the UN General Assembly. This comprehensive and authoritative study serves as an introduction to this Constitution and may come to be seen as the defining work on a World State.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780999647
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 06/29/2018
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Nicholas Hagger is a poet, man of letters, cultural historian and philosopher. He has lectured in English Literature at the University of Baghdad in Iraq and the University of Libya, and was a Professor of English Literature at Tokyo University of Education, Keio University and Tokyo University in Japan. He has studied Islamic and Oriental philosophy, and led a group of Universalist philosophers. He is the author of 46 books. These comprise a substantial literary output of over 2,000 poems, including over 300 classical odes; two poetic epics; 5 verse plays and a masque; 1,200 short stories; travelogues; and innovatory works in literature, history and philosophy. He was awarded the Gusi Peace Prize 2016 for Literature.

Table of Contents

Author's Note xi

Prologue: The Need for a World State xiii

Part 1 Beyond the Nation-State 1

1 Transient Forms of Government and the Drift towards a World State 3

2 Longings for a World State 21

3 Attempts at Imposing a World State on the Known World by Conquest 45

4 The Failure of the Old Order 58

Part 2 Supranationalism 99

5 Beyond Existing Models 101

6 The Ideal Form of the World State: The United Federation of the World 153

7 The Structure of a World State 165

Diagram/Flow Chart: The Structure of the World State 173

8 Manifesto for a World State 194

Epilogue: Global Democracy and a Golden Age 207

Chart of 25 Civilizations and Cultures from One to One 216

Appendices: Evidence and Data: Evidence on which the need for a World State is based and Data on which World State calculations have been based 219

A Confederations, Federations and Unitary States

A1 Confederations 220

A2 Federations 224

A3 Unitary States with Devolution 227

B US-Based Documents

B1 Declaration of Independence, 1776 233

B2 The North Atlantic Treaty, 1949 239

B3 Project for the New American Century, 1997 244

C The UN

C1 Overview of the UN Structure 247

C2 Structure of the UN Agencies 248

C3 UN Organisations 249

C4 The UN's 193 Member States 256

C5 The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 260

C6 Wars the UN Failed to Prevent Involving 124 Countries; 1945-2017 268

C7 37 Major Conflicts the UN Failed to Prevent after 1945: 689 UN Resolutions and 33,750,000 Deaths 282

C8 162 Wars since 1945 288

C9 The World's Nuclear Weapons in Early 2017 294

D Freedom

D1 125 Electoral Democracies, 2017 296

D2 Freedom Ratings, 2017 298

D3 Freedom Ratings Table by Countries and Territories, 2017 302

D4 The World's 59 Dictators, 2017 311

E Regions and Nation-States

E1 Regional Populations as Percentages of World Population, 2017 314

E2 Historical and Predicted Regional Populations as Percentages of World Population 315

E3 Nation-States' Populations as Percentages of World Population, 2017 316

E4 8 Regions and 196 Nation-States 333

E5 18 Mini-Regions and 210 Nation-States 336

E6 Club of Rome's 10 Zones 340

E7 The IMF's 189 Countries, 2017 342

E8 Overview of the EU's Institutions 347

List of Websites Supporting Data in the Appendices 348

Notes and Sources 353

Bibliography 365

Index 369

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