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Rethinking Global Governance
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David Kennedy
Uploaded on 03/07/2008

Description: Updating international institutions for the 21st century.

Transcript: Well I do think collectively on the planet as a whole, we need to rethink the institutional structure that came down to us from the World War II era, which has been very effective in its own terms in promoting this general phenomenon that goes by the name globalization and human interdependence with the world around. That institutional structure I think still has a lot to recommend it; but I don’t think it’s adequate to the task of the 21st century. So I think the collective task for all the peoples and all the sovereign states of the earth is to look at that institutional structure, update it, add to it, eliminate those institutions that are no longer historically necessary; but to start thinking about institutional structures that will address environmental issues and their global and planetary contexts. We don’t have anything like that now. We have national organizations that do so in this country – the Environmental Protection Agency. But our . . . And we’ve . . . We’re groping towards international institutions to serve these kinds of functions, as in the Kyoto Accords, something that this country has repudiated. But the dawning consciousness, it seems to me, that these are issues that transcend national borders and must be dealt with in a planetary way, and therefore require institutional apparatus to do so. And I think that’s a big agenda.

Recorded on: 7/4/07

 

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yeah,I agree that people should take this issue seriously. I have been thinking of this issue for long time. After the II world war,seems that people won the fight against Nazism. And after the falling down we won the fight against communism.The economies are getting better and better. Seems that we do not have nothing to concern except how to make more money. Is that true? In my opinion, staring from the end of the II world war, people all around the world became more and more rely on the institution of government and the institution of corporation. Let's just focus on the government. If we take a look back to our history after the II world war, we can see how the government step into every corner of our life. The government regulate every thing now in the name of helping us.They promulgated new laws and regulations every minutes in the name of protecting our rights. But I don't think so. When we are familiar with these actions or the function played by the institution of government, we can never get ride of it.Just as we can never get ride of the institution of corporation although we know that corporation makes troubles.First, the governance of a state, then the governance of world. Because we let our government to discuss and decide how we should protect our environment. The more we rely on something, the more we lose. We rely on government, because our government can provide us social securities, then we lose our rights to choose what medi-care we want and which is the best. In the past we have individual sovereign, but now we only get state or government sovereign. It's a terrible trends.
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