Problem
Habitual overemphasis on national self-determination
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Self determination unrelated to global obligationsLack of global political decision-making
Nature:
Unlimited national sovereignty has spread like a plague across the world since the drafting of the UN Charter in 1945. It was quite natural, but it did not help when the new states emerging from the yoke of colonialism lusted for the same total sovereignty their former masters had. There is no system of decision-making powerful enough to surpass this national drive for supremacy. The result is that international political decisions, even within the United Nations, depend at basis on power manipulation among those nations most able to threaten the others.
Broader Problems:
Global parochialismParochial national interestsGovernmental barriers to a global ethicSocially unaccountable global governanceInadequate structures for achieving global unityInadequacy of prevailing learning systems Narrower Problems:
Subjective cultural rankingLack of intersocietal resource channelsInadequacy of economic accounting systemsUnwillingness to sacrifice political powerSelf-interested government foreign policies Related Problems:
ContinentalismLack of human unityReinforced parochialism of internal values and images Aggravates:
Territorial fragmentationLack of international cooperationMisuse of non-interference principleInadequate international law enforcementNon-global priorities for use of world resourcesUnilateral interpretations of multilateral principlesInadequacy of economic accounting systems Reduced By:
Over-centralization of global decision-makingStrategies:
Developing global ethicEncouraging national self-determinationRelating self-determination to global obligationsProviding sufficient global political decision-makingAbstaining from global political decision-making Subject(s):
Government → Government Government → Political
International Relations → Planetary initiatives
Policy-making → Policy
Societal Problems → Scarcity
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST