The New World Order Essays - World Government, Global Civics

The New World Order The idea of a New World Order has been around for a long time. This ideal centers around the concept of a one world government led by the United Nations. Many have praised the idea of a New World Order, including some of our very own Presidents of the United States, while other stand against the idea all together. In theory the idea of a one world government would be nice, uniting the world as one, however the shortcomings, in my opinion, out weigh the positive factors. In 1989, the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the post-war ordeals ended only two years later with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Kosovo crisis has tagged an end to ten years of disorder and uncertainty with international politics and a breakthrough of a new order for the up and coming century. Today the world is dominated by the idea of economic globalisation, that must be backed up by a new global security arrangement. (http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr) A suggested idea for the 21st century government has been the ideology of the New World Order, one world government lead by the United Nations. It would create new forms of global economics, global politics and overlapping and diminishing cultures. The economic system would be based financial and momentary supported by the New World Order. State borders would be either severely reduced or erased in order to create a one-world government for the New World Order. Some or all this may sound quite appealing bu t it would come with many strings attached, many consequences and many drawbacks. In a New World Order, as proposed by Mehdi Alavi author of A New World Order: Democracy, Civility and World Peace, government would be based on the Law of Nature, or the Natural Law. This would consist of global peaceful participation, majority rule and respect for human rights. Although this may sound good on paper, the drawbacks and consequences are never mentioned in the book. Some of the major problems with the notion of a New World Order are that the states would experience a loss of identity, power and sovereignty as well as combined and/or lost cultures for the citizens of the world.(Alavi) In Article 3 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, it is stated that "the principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation." This means that governments are entitled to settle conflicts within their own states according to their own laws without interference form the outside. By creating a New World Order state governments would not only have outside interference in upholding their laws they might not even exist at all. It is true that some states have been noting for abusing this law against their own citizens, in cases like forbidding other states to come to the help of their victims as in Yugoslavia. Such cases are not heard of quite often, and are certainly the minority. If the law from 1789 were to be broken, states would lose a great deal of authority, power, respect and ability to stay in charge.(http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr) The concept of globalization, both economically and otherwise, will prove to cause another set of major problems. States identities as well as their sovergnity will be undermined if not lost all together. It would cause for the abolishment of states and combining cultures. Since sovereignty would now not lie solely with the states there could possibly be a new concept of a world wide system of limited sovergnity, which might possibly lead to a another concept of a sovereign individual. .(http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr) By creating a one-world government all the various cultures of the world would be forced to mesh together creating a "monolithic, homogeneous global culture." (http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr) Genuine diversity and uniqueness along with roots and traditions would be destroyed. If the New World Order was to occur a world of traditional cultural and communal relations cannot be expected. Rather a world of human beings with no distinctive ties or loyalties would result. It would lead to the destruction of community and society. The idea of a one-world order would cause for the sacrifice of people's national interests and security, in order for the idea to