TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zolo,Danilo
TI  - Cosmopolis : prospects for world government 
SN  - 9780745613017
AV  - JX1391 .Z65 1997
U1  - 327.101 22
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - International relations
KW  - Pacific settlement of international disputes
KW  - Negotiation
KW  - Self-organizing systems
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-190) and index; 1; The Cosmopolitan Model of the Holy Alliance --; 2; The Gulf War: The First Cosmopolitan War --; 3; The Blind Alleys of International Ethics --; 4; Civitas Maxima and Cosmopolitan Law --; 5; Towards a 'Weak Pacifism'
N2  - This book is a challenging critique of the idea of Cosmopolis - that is, the idea of world or 'global government'. In recent years this idea has been put forward as a way of averting the threat of war and international disorder, and as a way of avoiding the destruction of the planet. Proponents of this idea call for a radical reform of the United Nations which aims to legitimize this institution as an international police force and as a provider of global justice; Zolo criticizes this new cosmopolitan philosophy and rejects the idea of trying to eliminate international conflict through the use of centralized and superior military force. He seeks instead to develop a conception of international relations which takes account of their pluralistic, dynamic and conflictual nature; This conception moves away from the logic of hierarchical centralization, which so dominates the UN Charter, and towards the logic of a 'weak interventionism' and 'weak pacifism' which relies on self-organization, coordination and negotiation
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