The world is advancing very rapidly towards an unknown end. States strive for power while others seek to maintain it, horrible acts against the rights of individuals begs action against them, poverty remains a pertinent issue in the world, the acts of terrorism against the western world seek to bring destabilization (Kelleher, 172), and the degradation of the environment issues much concern among the peoples of the world. However, amongst the many issues of the world, potential solutions remain well within the grasp of the world if it’s people and states were to strive to take the necessary steps to obtain a more just and civilized society. Firstly, states would need to have their power removed and replaced with a global society (Kelleher,
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This can be obtained through shifting power away from sovereign states to reduce the anarchy, or that each state acts as its own judge and under its own laws (Kelleher, 166). Once a fully global society is achieved war would decrease drastically due to everybody being under the same government with only the occasional civil war to break the peace. However, these civil wars would more likely than not be a small portion that could easily be defeated and peace restored. Another benefit to the global society would be that it would combine the best aspects of every society to form a more perfect world (Kelleher, 49). And, on top of that the cultures that threaten the rights of individuals would be culled (Kelleher, 49). This leads into the next major step to achieving a more just and civilized society, destruction of the intolerable acts performed by certain …show more content…
The first way to do this is once again, globalization. With the presence of a completely globalized world war between states would not be possible since there would no longer be states for war to commence between. Also, if any non-state actors were to attempt either guerrilla warfare, using small arms and hit-and-run tactics (Kelleher, 171), or terrorism, which is defined as acts such as bombing and assassination carried out by a small number of people generally against civilians, for the purpose of destabilizing an existing political system (Kelleher, 172), or a combination of the two, the response from the rest of the populace would wipe out the threat extremely quickly. The collective security provided by the militaries of the world would be massive deterrence, or posing a credible military threat to enemies and to potential aggressors, as
This can be obtained through shifting power away from sovereign states to reduce the anarchy, or that each state acts as its own judge and under its own laws (Kelleher, 166). Once a fully global society is achieved war would decrease drastically due to everybody being under the same government with only the occasional civil war to break the peace. However, these civil wars would more likely than not be a small portion that could easily be defeated and peace restored. Another benefit to the global society would be that it would combine the best aspects of every society to form a more perfect world (Kelleher, 49). And, on top of that the cultures that threaten the rights of individuals would be culled (Kelleher, 49). This leads into the next major step to achieving a more just and civilized society, destruction of the intolerable acts performed by certain …show more content…
The first way to do this is once again, globalization. With the presence of a completely globalized world war between states would not be possible since there would no longer be states for war to commence between. Also, if any non-state actors were to attempt either guerrilla warfare, using small arms and hit-and-run tactics (Kelleher, 171), or terrorism, which is defined as acts such as bombing and assassination carried out by a small number of people generally against civilians, for the purpose of destabilizing an existing political system (Kelleher, 172), or a combination of the two, the response from the rest of the populace would wipe out the threat extremely quickly. The collective security provided by the militaries of the world would be massive deterrence, or posing a credible military threat to enemies and to potential aggressors, as