Joe3113
01-23-2008, 05:48 AM
The following passage is from an article written in the April 1974 edition of "Foreign Affairs", which is the official publication of the Council on Foreign Relations. The article is called "The Hard Road to World Order" and it's author is Richard N. Gardner, former United States ambassador to Spain and also Italy. He now works at Columbia Law School as a professor of law.
[-- In short, the "house of world order" will have to be built from
the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like
a great "booming, buzzing confusion," to use William James'
famous description of reality, but an end run around national
sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much
more than the old-fashioned frontal assault. Of course, for polit-
ical as well as administrative reasons, some of these specialized
arrangements should be brought into an appropriate relationship
with the central institutions of the U.N. system, but the main
thing is that the essential functions be performed. --]
Full Article in pdf format is available here:
www.thepowerhour.com/articles/HardRoadtoWorldOrder.pdf
[-- In short, the "house of world order" will have to be built from
the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like
a great "booming, buzzing confusion," to use William James'
famous description of reality, but an end run around national
sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much
more than the old-fashioned frontal assault. Of course, for polit-
ical as well as administrative reasons, some of these specialized
arrangements should be brought into an appropriate relationship
with the central institutions of the U.N. system, but the main
thing is that the essential functions be performed. --]
Full Article in pdf format is available here:
www.thepowerhour.com/articles/HardRoadtoWorldOrder.pdf