Making The World Autonomous: A Global Role For The European Union - Hardcover

Clunies-Ross, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903765463 ISBN 13: 9781903765463

Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

As the 21st century opens there are four key areas of human activity that require attention from a governmental union that embraces most of the world. These include the control of weapons and keeping the peace, the environmental protection of the globe, general enforcement of basic human civil rights, and setting an acceptable floor to poverty. To achieve these aims, together with the financial powers necessary to pursue them, a minimal global democratic confederation is required. These objectives can only be reached through consent. The only way by which confederation is likely to emerge is through a process of 'widening and deepening' as practiced in the European movement since the1950s. The European Union has the potential to be not only the model for this development but also its vehicle. Making the World Autonomous sets forward a path for the European Union to deliver on these goals. The Union must refrain from some actions and encourage others. Above all it must make clear that it is open for any country that fulfills the Union's basic political criteria (democratic, law-governed, observant of basic human rights and protective of minorities) to join.

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Anthony Clunies-Ross, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Strathclyde has taught and researched in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. He was written reports for both the UN and the ILO on issues surrounding 'Financing social development'.

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• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1903765463
• ISBN 13: 9781903765463
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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