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- Title
Política interna mundial: un mundo moralizado.
- Authors
Pogge, Thomas
- Abstract
Today's most advanced societies are structured around three normative elements: rule of law, meeting basic human needs, and constrained inequality. These are culturally deeply entrenched to the point that citizens are expected fully to subordinate their diverse personal interests and values to their shared commitment to their society's just and fair functioning. This entrenched normative expectation of impartiality is surprising: a mother giving a favor to her own beloved child is widely denounced if she does so in the execution of a public office. Harsh as such condemnation of nepotism may appear, it is a key precondition for the most successful societies yet created. Arguably, the longterm survival of humanity requires an analogous civilizational achievement on the global plane. There, as well, just and fair rules and institutional arrangements can persist only if those entrusted with their design and operation are expected to be strictly impartial in the execution of their public roles and hence widely denounced for any favoritism toward their home country. Reflecting a mere modus vivendi, the current state of international relations involves the opposite expectation: that agents operating at the supranational level will act to advance the special interests and values of their home state. Such national nepotism prevents the emergence of a world order based on shared values, which humanity urgently needs to master the great challenges posed by nationally controlled advanced weapons and other dangerous technologies, by climate change, pollution, and resource depletion, and by supranational lobbying resulting in inefficient and unstable international institutional arrangements that can lead to massive economic collapse.
- Subjects
JUSTICE; RESOURCE exploitation; BASIC needs; INTERNATIONAL organization; FAIRNESS; RULE of law; NEPOTISM
- Publication
Araucaria, 2024, Vol 26, Issue 55, p511
- ISSN
1575-6823
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12795/araucaria.2024.i55.23