GS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter Orend 12: Thomas Pogge, World Government
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The assurance problem is solved (trust no one) Arguments: realist, previous successes, one world, one government: Eu and the us as a federal model. Thomas pogge: government organization must evolve at the same pace as everything else. Problems such as drugs and terrorism that are intrastate can"t be solved individually. Evangelicals think it would be the beginning of the end of the world. If not one government in the world has been able to self all its problems how one big. Arguments against: history, anti socialist government lead to more success, getting there, government and community. We would have to find a way to unite all cultures and beliefs in earth. According to michael waltzer in order for a government to be successful, the community must feel represented by it. Hence, an international community is incompatible with humanity: coercion. Actual countries would be states of a whole institution.
