World government & the American way
In the Washington Post Joseph Nye mulls over two contrasting approaches to diplomacy. Strobe Talbott's book makes the case for internationalism, John Bolton wants to go in exactly the opposite direction:
Talbott provides a far richer, deeper account of the idea of global governance in American foreign policy. He reminds us that as recently as 1949, 64 Democrats, including John Kennedy, and 27 Republicans, including Gerald Ford, sponsored a resolution in favor of world federalism. But Bolton reminds us that many far less ambitious measures would never pass the Senate today. Which book should you read? Both, but if you have to choose, pick the one you are more likely to disagree with, because you will learn more about the range of the current debate.
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January 28th, 2008 3:08pm"To offset that defect," Talbott writes, "the U.N. needs to be incorporated into an increasingly variegated network of structures and arrangements -- some functional in focus, others geographic; some intergovernmental, others based on systematic collaboration with the private sector, civil society, and NGOs." Sounds wonderful and utopian. How can I make sure that I'm one of the beneficiaries of this new world order rather than one of the eggs that gets scrambled in order to make the global omelet that accommodates the autocrats, theocrats, provincialists, and pacifists that dominate current multinational organzations?