A Difficult Century - Forming Of The World Government

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A Difficult Century - Forming Of The World Government

According to Held, Today, the mechanisms we have for enforcing international law depend too much on whether a powerful geo-political force such as the U.S. is willing to commit resources to the problem. In such a situation, a ‘big state’ will likely do what it desires, acting in its own interests. Recent developments in Kosovo, Chechnya, Iran and other states in some kind of a conflict have just proven the above statement. Presently the most important developments in international law and relations between states are, almost exclusively, dictated by the Great Powers. The General Assembly of the UN is probably the only part of UN that represents some kind of democratic current, but it, nevertheless, has almost no authority and certainly no binding power on its member countries. The world needs authoritative global governance, which will enable democratic development in all members, and this will not be an easy task to achieve. The Great Powers would prefer forming of the world government only if they have legislative power big enough to control, up to some extent, the actions of such a government. Today such a control is established by the veto system in the Security Council. Although the veto was used by one some of the permanent members of the Security Council only a couple of times in the nineties, it is still a very powerful weapon able to stop almost any attempt that one of the permanent members is against. Un will have to undergo some drastic changes if it is to be the world government, and will have to find a way of controlling the Great Powers and direct their political power and influence towards resolving and not creating the world’s conflicts.
NATO, as the biggest regional organization, is one of the actors who should at least help, if not carry the one of the main roles, in the changes needed to establish the global governance. Unfortunately the policy that NATO undertook in the last couple of years, especially in the Yugoslavia in 1999, does not contribute to the forming of the world governance. On the contrary, one can perceive the developments in the South-eastern Europe as the spreading of the US political and military influence and not as a start of the global governing process. As Pearson indicates, The United States also sidesteps the authority of the Security Council – as it did in the US-led NATO bombing of Yugoslavia And the sidesteps like the one in the case of the NATO campaign ...

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