State sovereignty must be altered in globalized era!!!!!!!

[AGENDA21]

For 350 years, sovereignty -- the notion that states are the central actors on the world stage and that governments are essentially free to do what they want within their own territory but not within the territory of other states -- has provided the organizing principle of international relations. The time has come to rethink this notion.

The world's 190-plus states now co-exist with a larger number of powerful non-sovereign and at least partly (and often largely) independent actors, ranging from corporations to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), from terrorist groups to drug cartels, from regional and global institutions to banks and private equity funds. The sovereign state is influenced by them (for better and for worse) as much as it is able to influence them. The near monopoly of power once enjoyed by sovereign entities is being eroded.

As a result, new mechanisms are needed for regional and global governance that include actors other than states. This is not to argue that Microsoft, Amnesty International, or Goldman Sachs be given seats in the UN General Assembly, but it does mean including representatives of such organizations in regional and global deliberations when they have the capacity to affect whether and how regional and global challenges are met.

Less is more

Moreover, states must be prepared to cede some sovereignty to world bodies if the international system is to function. This is already taking place in the trade realm. Governments agree to accept the rulings of the WTO because on balance they benefit from an international trading order even if a particular decision requires that they alter a practice that is their sovereign right to carry out.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2006/02/21/2003294021

[Kagemusha]

1. Nice argument for a country few recognize to make.

Beat down everyone else's sovereignty and lack of recognition of your own doesn't matter so much.

But at any rate this bridge was crossed with the Yugoslavia and Iraq conflicts. There won't be any going back.

[rman]

2. and electoral representation be damned

"...including representatives (Microsoft, Amnesty International, or Goldman Sachs) of such organizations in regional and global deliberations..."

Screw democracy, the "free market" will regulate all.

New World Order here we come.

[AGENDA21]

3. NWO..should be discussed more often!

[The2ndWheel]

4. Power never dies

It just changes shape.

K&R.

[rman]

5. To bad it rarely takes the shape

of actual self-rule, aka true democracy.