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Immanuel Kant - Global Governance Forum
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), the renowned 17th century philosopher, was the author of a philosophical doctrine, known as “transcendental idealism,” laid out in his most famous treatise, A Critique of Pure Reason. He argued that space, time, and causation are mere sensibilities, that things in themselves exist, but that their nature is unknowable and that intuition is ...
Global Governance Forum
Managing Global Catastrophic Risks in the 21st Century Twenty-eight contributors offer thoughtful proposals for reforming existing international institutions and creating new ones to build a more peaceful, prosperous and just world, covering themes such as the management of weapons of mass destruction, collective security arrangements, justice and equity in economics, human rights, migration ...
Where did the concept of global governance come from?
Following the establishment of the United Nations, the global governance debate has continued to evolve. The key objective remains striking a balance between the need to ensure that the UN will be able to deliver peace and security, and the need to retain powers at the national level in those areas where it made sense to preserve a large measure of national control.
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global governance and the emergence of global institutions for the 21st century Is there any hope for those who despair at the state of the world and the powerlessness of
Bertha von Suttner - Global Governance Forum
Baroness Bertha von Suttner (1843 to 1914) was an Austrian pacifist and writer. In 1905, in recognition of her lifelong opposition to war she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the second female Nobel laureate, after Marie Curie.
Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st ...
The idea of bringing into being supranational organizations to resolve disputes between states has a distinguished lineage, going as far back as Dante Alighieri’s On World Government, Rousseau’s A Project of Perpetual Peace and Kant’s proposal for a federation of nations operating under the rule of law, and eventually evolving into “a perfect civil union of mankind.”
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