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The European Union, the United Nations, and the Revival of Confederal Governance (Hardcover)
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The European Union, the United Nations, and the Revival of Confederal Governance (Hardcover)
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Before it became a federation, the United States was briefly a
confederation, a much looser union composed of states rather than
of peoples. Unions of states to promote ecomomic well-being and to
prevent war are now being revived. Mr. Lister analyzes modern
confederalism, and how it is functioning in the single market of
the Europen Union and how it might function if the collective
security system of the United Nations could be carried out, as
originally planned, by a confederal-style partnership of the
world's independent states. Political scientists have traditionally
classified voluntary polities as confederations, federations, or
unitary states. But they have ignored the first of these classes,
perhaps because Alexander Hamilton, wishing to mobilize support for
the new federal constitution, discredited not only the United
States Confederation but the whole class of confederations as a
viable method of governance. More than 200 years later,
confederation as a form of governance is still under a cloud. Yet
it has been resurfacing, largely unrecognized for what it is, in
the repertory of government. In the treaties of Rome and Maastricht
and in the collective security system of the Charter, the European
Union and the United Nations are already involved in forms of
governance that are confederal in all but name. Lister's book
describes confederal governance and how such unions of states
differ from intergovernmental organizations on the one hand and
federations on the other. Meticulously researched and carefully
argued, it draws upon his five years of study of confederal unions
from Ancient Greece through the 19th-century Germanic Confederation
and the German Zollverein. But his book is not a history of
confederations. Instead, it shows how long-term alliances sometimes
evolve into unions of states and, in time, into communities of the
peoples who live in those states. It also shows how the ties of
confederal union have been institutionalized in modern times in the
EU and how they might be institutionalized in a global collective
security body.^L ^L Finally, the book stresses the urgency of
moving in this direction because we shall face a very serious
security problem in the next century. With the steady leakage of
nuclear materials in Russia, the non-proliferation approach to
controlling weapons of mass destruction appears to be breaking
down. Lister argues that if and when governments are confronted
with this looming problem, perhaps in the not-too-distant future,
the confederal model may be the one that they will need to have
updated and at their disposal.
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