The Case for Global Governance: Peace, Prosperity, and Unified Action
The current international system, characterized by the sovereignty of over 190 nation-states, is fundamentally ill-equipped to address the systemic challenges of the 21st century, from global economic instability to existential threats like climate change and nuclear proliferation. The conceptual evolution of the United Nations (UN) into a functional world government offers a path toward perpetual peace, unparalleled economic stability, and the realization of distributive global justice. Such a unified polity, empowered to act decisively and unilaterally, would redefine human civilization by removing the structural incentives for conflict and establishing a framework for coordinated global welfare.