What Happened to the Idea of World Government *
What Happened to the Idea of World Government *
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世界政府的想法发生了什么*
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2009
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T. Weiss
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世界政府的理念在 1930 年代和 1940 年代的美国公共辩论中占据核心地位，它发生了什么？为什么它被“全球治理”所取代？本文回顾了这种演变背后的原因——需要将相互依赖和非国家行为体纳入分析框架以及分析师缺乏想象力——以及这两个概念的优缺点。当国家仍然能够解决或减轻大多数问题时，世界政府仍然是一个可能的目标，并且离主流不远。矛盾的是，既然各国显然无法应对越来越多的跨境威胁，世界政府就变得难以想象；甚至更强大的国际组织也常常遭到质疑。二战后创建新一代国际组织的美国富有远见的政治承诺能否在奥巴马政府的领导下重新出现？如果不是在 2009 年，那么至少在第二任期结束时会再次出现吗？
What happened to the idea of world government, so central in the United States to public debate of the 1930s and 1940s, and why has it been replaced by ‘‘global governance’’? This article reviews the reasons behind that evolution—the need to incorporate interdependence and nonstate actors into analytical frameworks along with a lack of imagination from analysts—as well as the pluses and minuses of both concepts. When states still could solve or attenuate most problems, world government remained a possible objective and not far from the mainstream. Paradoxically, now that states visibly cannot address a growing number of transboundary threats, world government is unimaginable; and even more robust international organizations are often looked upon askance. Could the same far-sighted American political commitment that created a new generation of international organizations after World War II re-emerge under the Obama administration, if not in 2009, then at least by the end of a second term?