Future of World Federalism
What is the Future of World Federalism?
The invention and spread of new telematic means of communication, like the Internet, has constituted an additional step towards globalization, abating States borders and allowing people of different nations to communicate, transfer capital and execute the purchase and sales of products in which the buyer and the seller are located in distant places of the Earth.
Technological evolution represents one of the main sources of globalization.
Globalization is an inescapable phenomenon: the only questions are when and how it will happen.
The choice of the best form of government is essential to ensuring that a positive and natural phenomenon does not lead to a new global conflict.
A comprehensive analysis and a roadmap to world federalism is presented in the book World Federalist Manifesto Guide to Political Globalization
A World Confederation?
Because of the States’ reluctance to cede part of their authority to an intergovernmental organization, a decentralized model would be the most appropriate at the international level.
The higher the degree of political decentralization, the higher the probabilities are that nations will join the international organization. In his book World Federalist Manifesto, Francesco Stipo theorizes a World Confederation in which countries would preserve their sovereignty, relinquishing to the federal authority only the powers to manage and regulate intergovernmental relationships.
Obstacles to World Federalism
The United Nations could evolve in a form of World Confederation. However, the one vote-one nation voting system in the General Assembly and the veto powers in the Security Council prevent the implementation of a comprehensive reform.
Other international organizations, such as NATO and the G20, could form alternative systems of global governance that might become in the future a form of world federalism.
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