1. World problems
  2. Habitual overemphasis on national self-determination

Habitual overemphasis on national self-determination

  • Self determination unrelated to global obligations
  • Lack 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.

Claim

Nations, accustomed over the years to being the form in which the world was understood, continue to serve as the primary social unit even when, as today, the primary obligation as human beings is to the entire globe. Thus, refusal by the people of a nation to restrain their right to self-determination blocks the prospect of global unity.

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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #10: Reduced InequalitySustainable Development Goal #16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Subject
  • Government » Government
  • Government » Political
  • International relations » Planetary initiatives
  • Policy-making » Policy
  • Societal problems » Scarcity
  • Content quality
    Presentable
     Presentable
    Language
    English
    Last update
    May 20, 2022