Global Survey Finds Citizens back a World Parliament as Trust in International System Erodes BERLIN, Germany, January 20 (IPS) - As democracy faces pressure around the world and confidence in international law drops, a new global survey reveals that citizens in a vast majority of countries support the idea of creating a citizen-elected world parliament to deal with global issues.

Global Survey Finds Citizens back a World #Parliament as Trust in International System Erodes

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It is the doctrine that was the standard in the #internationalsystem until #WW1 and the doctrine that was only starting to be abandoned after WW2, when a (apparently) more solid international organization - the UN, that is - was created to keep the order and make wars preventable. (11/17)

The West Is Not Ready for a Multipolar World Gemma Cheng'er Deng & Jim O'Neill think the United States and its traditional allies lack a coherent strategy for dealing with emerging powers.

“The world is shifting from a largely #hegemonic #internationalsystem to a more fragmented, contested, and #multipolar set of arrangements.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/w...

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5/10 "The UK's actions to date have failed to meet those standards," lawyers warn.

"The international community's failure to uphold international law imperils the international legal system itself.

Your government must act now, before it is too late."
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