Abstract
This paper is a response to the plea for regional regrouping of states in the context of global dominance-dependency structure (Kothari, 1974). It begins by pointing out the misconceptions, stated or implicit, about the First and Third Worlds and the uncertainties regarding the Second World, from which such a proposal stems. The paper then goes on to argue for a minimal world government (made particularly urgent by the crises arising primarily from a cultural lag caused by the confrontation between changed conditions and unchanged habit of thought and mode of behavior. The world government is conceived in terms of replacing both legislatures and popular ballots by a system giving primacy to policy-making (based on rigorously scientific criteria) by voter-legislators, self-elected by virtue of their proven competence in understanding all aspects of the issues requiring policy decisions. Such a government can be built up through further theoretical developments, experimental demonstrations, and the establishment of an initiating agency, using strategies designed to appeal at once to the self-interest of developed as well as developing nations. The paper makes a number of suggestions in this regard.
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