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Does Anyone Really Want A Parliament Of Man?, Kenneth Anderson
Does Anyone Really Want A Parliament Of Man?, Kenneth Anderson
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American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2010-05Abstract:This is a review-essay of historian Paul Kennedy's recent history of the UN and global governance, The Parliament of Man. It offers a critical look at Kennedy's account of the development of the UN as the gradual, if fitful, progress of the United Nations towards global governance under an order of liberal internationalism - the slow triumph of international institutions and law over the the anarchy of international power politics among sovereign states.The essay argues that what Kennedy views as the gradual movement toward global governance by the UN, or international institutions of any …