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Is there a New World Order coming? You better
believe it! Only it wont be ushered in by the
Masons, the U.N., or the
World
Bank. Now these 3 and others may be used
to prepare the way, but rest assured the NWO
will come by way of the
Antichrist.
Biblically speaking, the antichrist will
effectively be the King of Earth. This will
require a one
world government (United States Of Earth
possibly?), one world currency (cashless debit
credit system), one world religion, one
identification sytem (666)
and one world communication system (wireless
internet.). One can easily see how close global
technology is to a King of the World pulling the
trigger and institutionalize all these
requirements.
What's left before we see all these things and
rise of The Antichrist? The State of Israel
facing total annihilation. Like we see Iran's
President Ahmadinejad feels it's his destiny
to "wipe Israel off the map". You can expect
that just before Iran hits "The Button" a man
will come on to the scene and broker Peace. The
deadliest peace the world will ever know!
May
God Save The Church!
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World government
World
Government is the notion of a single common political
authority for all of humanity. Its modern conception is
rooted in European history, particularly in the philosophy
of ancient Greece, in the political formation of the Roman
Empire, and in the subsequent struggle between secular
authority, represented by the Holy Roman Emperor, and
ecclesiastical authority, represented by the Pope. The
seminal work on the subject was written by Dante Alighieri,
titled in Latin, De Monarchia, which in English translates
literally as "On Monarchy". Dante's work was published in
1329, but the date of its authorship is disputed.
History
Persian Empire
Under Cyrus The
Great and Darius the Persians founded one of the world's first
stable, sophisticated empires based around the area of modern
day Iran and Iraq. At its height, the empire was, arguably, the
largest and most powerful state in the world, stretching from
the banks of the Indus river in the area of modern-day Pakistan
to roughly what now forms the westernmost boundaries of
modern-day Turkey. The empire itself was widely known for its
immense wealth, and it had a highly-developed bureaucracy which
governed and maintained order over every part of the empire. The
empire's prosperity and power drew both the admiration and envy
of neighboring states, and later inspired the Ancient Macedonian
king Alexander the Great to invade the empire and seize it for
himself.
Roman
Empire
 The
beneficial role of the Roman Empire in relation to
Pax Romana was a subject of discourse in ancient
times.
Pax Romana (Latin for
"Roman peace") was the long period of relative peace
and minimal expansion by military force experienced
by the Roman Empire in the first and second
centuries AD. Since it was established by Caesar
Augustus it is sometimes called Pax Augusta. Its
timing was approximately 200 years (27 BC to 180
AD).
Empires
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The
Mongol Empire was the largest
contiguous empire |
No complete world
government has ever existed, but over human history
there have been several empires or dictatorships that
encompassed substantial portions of the then known
world. Famous examples are Alexander the Great and his
empire, the Roman Empire, the Mongol Empire, and the
British Empire. In the case of the British, a quarter of
the world's land surface and approximately a third of
the world's population was part of the Empire. This is
the single closest time that the world has come to a
total political unification. |
Hugo
Grotius
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In 1625, the
Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius wrote De Jure
Belli ac Pacis (The Laws of War and Peace),
which is the source of international law.
De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War
and Peace) is a 1625 book in Latin, written
by Hugo Grotius and published in Paris, on
the legal status of war. It is now regarded
as a foundational work in international law.
Book at left:
De jure belli ac pacis,
title page from the second edition of 1631 |
United
States
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant
wrote the essay "Perpetual Peace: A
Philosophical Sketch (Zum ewigen Frieden.
Ein philosophischer Entwurf.) (1795)". In
his essay, Kant describes three basic
requirements for organizing human affairs to
permanently abolish the threat of a future
war, and, thereby, help establish a new era
of lasting peace throughout the world.
Specifically, Kant described his proposed
peace program as containing two steps. |
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Painted portrait of
Immanuel Kant. |
The "Preliminary Articles" described the steps
that should be taken immediately, or with all
deliberate speed:
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"No Secret Treaty of Peace Shall Be Held
Valid in Which There Is Tacitly Reserved Matter
for a Future War"
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"No Independent States, Large or Small,
Shall Come under the Dominion of Another State
by Inheritance, Exchange, Purchase, or Donation"
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"Standing
Armies Shall in Time Be Totally Abolished"
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"National Debts Shall Not Be Contracted with
a View to the External Friction of States"
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"No State Shall by Force Interfere with the
Constitution or Government of Another State"
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"No State Shall, during War, Permit Such
Acts of Hostility Which Would Make Mutual
Confidence in the Subsequent Peace Impossible:
Such Are the Employment of Assassins (percussores),
Poisoners (venefici), Breach of Capitulation,
and Incitement to Treason (perduellio) in the
Opposing State"
Three Definitive Articles would provide not
merely a cessation of hostilities, but a foundation
on which to build a peace.
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"The Civil Constitution of Every State
Should Be Republican"
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"The Law of Nations Shall be Founded on a
Federation of Free States"
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"The Law of World Citizenship Shall Be
Limited to Conditions of Universal Hospitality"
Karl
Krause
In
1811, a German philosopher Karl Krause, suggested,
in an essay titled "The Archetype of Humanity", the
formation of five regional federations: Europe,
Asia, Africa, America and Australia, aggregated
under a world republic. In 1842, the English poet
Lord Alfred Tennyson, published the oft-quoted lines
"Locksley Hall": For I dipt into the future, far
as human eye could see / Saw a Vision of the world,
and all the wonder that would be /... / Till the
war-drum throbb'd no longer / and the battle-flags
were furled / In the Parliament of man, the
Federation of the world. / There the common sense of
most shall hold / a fretful realm in awe / And the
kindly earth shall slumber / lapt in universal law.
Bahá'u'lláh
Though not playing a significant role in Western
history, between 1852 and 1892 Bahá'u'lláh founded
the Bahá'í Faith, a religion, identified the
establishment of a global commonwealth of nations as
a key principle of his new religion. He envisioned a
set of new social structures based on participation
and consultation among the world's peoples,
including a world legislature, an international
court, and an international executive empowered to
carry out the decisions of these legislative and
judicial bodies. Connected principles of the Bahá'í
religion include universal systems of weights and
measures, currency unification, and the adoption of
a global auxiliary language. The Bahá'í Faith
currently counts in excess of 5 million members
spread across the globe.
International organizations
 International
organizations started forming in the late 19th
century – the International Red Cross in 1863, the
Telegraphic Union in 1865 and the Universal Postal
Union in 1874. The increase in international trade
at the turn of the 20th century accelerated the
formation of international organizations, and, by
the start of World War I in 1914, there were
approximately 450 of them. Support for the idea of
establishing international law grew during that
period as well. The Institute of International Law
was formed in 1873 by the Belgian Jurist Gustave
Rolin-Jaequemyns, leading to the creation of
concrete legal drafts, for example by the Swiss
Johaan Bluntschli in 1866[citation needed]. In 1883,
James Lorimer published "The Institutes of the Law
of Nations" in which he explored the idea of a world
government establishing the global rule of law. The
first embryonic world parliament, called the
Inter-Parliamentary Union, was organized in 1886 by
Cremer and Passy, composed of legislators from many
countries. In 1904 the Union formally proposed "an
international congress which should meet
periodically to discuss international questions".
League of Nations
 The
League of Nations (LoN) was an inter-governmental
organization founded as a result of the Treaty of
Versailles in 1919–1920. At its greatest extent from
28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58
members. The League's goals included upholding the
new found Rights of Man such as right of non whites,
rights of women, rights of soldiers, disarmament,
preventing war through collective security, settling
disputes between countries through negotiation,
diplomacy and improving global quality of life. The
diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented
a fundamental shift in thought from the preceding
hundred years. The League lacked its own armed force
and so depended on the Great Powers to enforce its
resolutions, keep to economic sanctions which the
League ordered, or provide an army, when needed, for
the League to use. However, they were often
reluctant to do so.
United
Nations
 World
War II, 1939-1945, resulted in an unprecedented
scale of destruction of lives (over 60 million dead,
most of them civilians), and the use of Weapons of
Mass Destruction. Some of the acts committed against
civilians during the war were on such a massive
scale of savagery, they came to be widely considered
as crimes against humanity itself. As the war's
conclusion drew near, many shocked voices called for
the establishment of institutions able to
permanently prevent deadly international conflicts.
This led to the founding of the United Nations in
1945, which adopted the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights in 1948. Many, however, felt that the
UN, essentially a forum for discussion and
coordination between sovereign governments, was
insufficiently empowered for the task. A number of
prominent persons, such as Albert Einstein, Winston
Churchill, Bertrand Russell and Mahatma Gandhi,
called on governments to proceed further by taking
gradual steps towards forming an effectual federal
world government.
World Federalist Movement
The
years between the conclusion of World War II and
1950, when the Korean War started and the Cold War
mindset became dominant in international politics,
were the "golden age" of the world federalist
movement. Wendell Wilkie's book "One World", first
published in 1943, sold over 2 million copies. In
another, Emery Reves' book "The Anatomy of
Peace"(1945) laid out the arguments for replacing
the UN with a federal world government and quickly
became the "bible" of world federalists. The
grassroots world federalist movement in the US, led
by people such as Grenville Clark, Norman Cousins,
Alan Cranston and Robert Hutchins, organized itself
into increasingly larger structures, finally
forming, in 1947, the United World Federalists
(later renamed to World Federalist Association, then
Citizens for Global Solutions), claiming membership
of 47,000 in 1949.
Similar movements concurrently formed in many other
countries, leading to the formation, at a 1947
meeting in Montreux, Switzerland, of a global
coalition, now called World Federalist Movement. By
1950, the movement claimed 56 member groups in 22
countries, with some 156,000 members. In France,
1948, Garry Davis began an unauthorized speech
calling for a world government from the balcony of
the UN General Assembly, until he was dragged away
by the guards. Mr. Davis renounced his American
citizenship and started a Registry of World
Citizens, which claimed to have registered over
750,000 people in less than two years. Opinion polls
carried out by UNESCO in 1948-1949 found world
government favored by a majority of respondents in
six European countries and rejected in three other
countries (Australia, Mexico and the United States).
On September 4, 1953, Davis, from the City Hall of
Ellsworth, Maine, announced the formation of the
"World Government of World Citizens" based on 3
"World Laws" — One God (or Absolute Value), One
World, and One Humanity. Following this declaration
mandated he claimed by article 21 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, he formed the United
World Service Authority in New York City as the
administrative agency of the new government. Its
first task was to design and issue a "World
Passport" based on article 13 of the UDHR. To date,
over 800,000 of these documents have been issued to
individuals worldwide. They have been recognized de
facto by over 150 countries.
World Passport (1953)
The
World Passport is a 45 page document issued by the
World Service Authority, a non-profit
organization,[6] citing Article 13, Section 2, of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. World
Passports have reportedly been accepted on a de
facto, case-by-case basis by over 174 countries and,
at one time or another, on an explicit, legal or de
jure basis by Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Mauritania,
Tanzania, Togo and Zambia. The latest edition of the
World Passport, issued January 2007, is an MRD
(machine readable document) with an alphanumeric
code bar enabling computer input plus an embedded
"ghost" photo for security, printing overcovered
with a plastic film. The passport is in 7 languages:
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese
and Esperanto. Two covers are available: "World
Passport," and "World Government Passport" (for
registered World Citizens), ("passport" is in 7
languages on both covers). Duration is 8 years, 5
years or 3 years. Other documents issued by WSA are
a World Birth Certificate (Art. 1, UDHR), a World
Political Asylum Card (Art. 14, UDHR), a World
Marriage Certificate, (Art. 16, UDHR) and a World
Identity Card, (Art 21,3, UDHR).
Legal Realism (1954)
Legal anthropologist
E. Adamson Hoebel concluded his treatise on
broadening the legal realist tradition to include
non-Western nations:
“Whatever the idealist may desire, force and the
threat of force are the ultimate power in the
determination of international behavior, as in the
law within the nation or tribe. But until force and
the threat of force in international relations are
brought under social control by the world community,
by and for the world society, they remain the
instruments of social anarchy and not the sanctions
of world law. The creation in clear-cut terms of the
corpus of world law cries for the doing. If world
law, however, is to be realized at all, there will
have to be minimum of general agreement as to the
nature of the physical and ideational world and the
relation of men in society to it. An important and
valuable next step will be found in deep-cutting
analysis of the major law systems of the
contemporary world in order to lay bare their basic
postulates – postulates that are too generally
hidden; postulates felt, perhaps, by those who live
by them, but so much taken for granted that they are
rarely expressed or exposed for examination. When
this is done – and it will take the efforts of many
keen intellects steeped in the law of at least a
dozen lands and also aware of the social nexus of
the law – then mankind will be able to see clearly
for the first time and clearly where the common
consensus of the great living social and law systems
lies. Here will be found the common postulates and
values upon which the world community can build. At
the same time the truly basic points of conflict
that will have to be worked upon for resolution will
be revealed. Law is inherently purposive.
The end of the Cold War (1990)
While
enthusiasm for multinational federalism in Europe
incrementally led, over the following decades, to
the formation of the European Union, the onset of
the Cold War (1950-1990) eliminated the prospects of
any progress towards federation with a more global
scope. The movement quickly shrunk in size to a much
smaller core of activists, and the FWG idea all but
disappeared from wide public discourse.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in
1991, interest in a federal world government and,
more generally, in the global protection of human
rights, was renewed. The most visible achievement of
the world federalism movement during the 1990s is
the Rome Statute of 1998, which led to the
establishment of the International Criminal Court in
2002. In Europe, progress towards forming a federal
union of European states gained much momentum,
starting in 1952 as a trade deal between the German
and French people lead, in 1992, to the Maastricht
Treaty that established the name and enlarged the
agreement that the European Union (EU) is based
upon. The EU expanded (1995, 2004, 2007) to
encompass, in 2007, nearly half a billion people in
27 member states. Following EU's example, the
African Union was founded in 2002 and the Union of
South American Nations in 2004.
Existing regional unions of nations
The only union generally recognized as having
achieved the status of a supranational union is the
European Union.
There are a number of other regional
organisations that, while not supranational unions,
have adopted or intend to adopt policies that may
lead to a similar sort of integration in some
respects.
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African Union (AU)
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Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN)
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Central American Integration System (SICA)
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Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the
Gulf (CCASG)
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Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
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Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC)
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South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
(SAARC)
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Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)
Other
organizations that have also discussed
greater integration include:
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Arab League into an "Arab
Union"
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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
into the "North
American Union"
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Pacific Islands Forum into the "Pacific
Union"
European Union
The
most relevant model for the incremental
establishment of a global federation may be the
European Union, which politically unites a large
group of widely diverse, some formerly hostile,
nations spread over a large geographical area and
500 million people. Though the EU is still evolving,
it already has many attributes of a federal
government, such as open internal borders, a
directly elected parliament, a court system, an
official currency (Euro) and a centralized economic
policy.
The EU's lead is being followed by the African
Union, the Union of South American Nations, the
Organization of Central American States, and the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations. A multitude
of regional associations, aggregating most nations
of the world, are at different stages of development
towards a growing extent of economic, and sometimes
political, integration.
African
Union
The
African Union (AU) is an organisation consisting of
fifty-three African states. Established on July 9,
2002, the AU was formed as a successor to the
amalgamated African Economic Community (AEC) and the
Organisation of African Unity (OAU). Eventually, the
AU aims to have a single currency and a single
integrated defence force, as well as other
institutions of state, including a cabinet for the
AU Head of State. The purpose of the union is to
help secure Africa's democracy, human rights, and a
sustainable economy, especially by bringing an end
to intra-African conflict and creating an effective
common market.
Projects for improved economic and political
cooperation are also happening at a regional level
with the Arab Maghreb Union, the Economic Community
of West African States, the Economic Community of
Central African States the Southern African
Development Community and the East African
Community.
ASEAN
ASEAN, pronounced
AH-see-ahn in English, or the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations, is a geo-political and
economic organization of 10 countries located in
Southeast Asia, which was formed on August 8, 1967
by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore,
and Thailand as a display of solidarity toward
communist expansion in Vietnam and insurgency within
their own borders. Its claimed aims include the
acceleration of economic growth, social progress,
cultural development among its members, and the
promotion of regional peace.[10] All members later
founded the Asia Cooperation Dialogue, which aims to
unite the entire continent.
Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is an
intergovernmental organization which was founded on
June 14, 2001 by the leaders of the People's
Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Except for Uzbekistan,
these countries had been members of the Shanghai
Five; after the inclusion of Uzbekistan in 2001, the
members renamed the organization.
Commonwealth of Independent States
The
Commonwealth of Independent States is comparable to
a confederation similar to the original European
Community. Although the CIS has few supranational
powers, it is more than a purely symbolic
organization, possessing coordinating powers in the
realm of trade, finance, lawmaking, and security. It
has also promoted cooperation on democratization and
cross-border crime prevention. As a regional
organization, CIS participates in UN peacekeeping
forces. Some of the members of the CIS have
established the Eurasian Economic Community with the
aim of creating a full-fledged common market.
Arab
League
The
Arab League is a regional organization of Arab
states in Southwest Asia, and North and Northeast
Africa. It was formed in Cairo on March 22, 1945
with six members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan (renamed
Jordan after 1946), Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and
Syria. Yemen joined as a member on May 5, 1945. The
Arab League currently has 22 members.
Union of South American Nations
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Map of USAN. |
The Union of
South American Nations was founded in
2006-2008 and is modeled on the European
Union. It incorporates all the independent
states of South America. These states are
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname,
Uruguay, and Venezuela. |
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
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The
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
is an economic and political organization of eight
countries in Southern Asia. In terms of population,
its sphere of influence is the largest of any
regional organization: almost 1.5 billion people,
the combined population of its member states. It was
established on December 8, 1985 by India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan.
In April 2007, at the Association's 14th summit,
Afghanistan became its eighth member.
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Map of SAARC nations and observers. |
The World Constitution and Parliament Association
The World Constitution and Parliament Association
(WCPA) was created in 1958 to promote democratic
world government. During the next 33 years the WCPA
held four Global Constituent Assemblies centered
around creating a Constitution for the Federation of
Earth. At the fourth assembly in Troia, Portugal in
1991, final amendments to the Constitution were made
and approved. Even before this assembly, the
organization has been involved in a worldwide
campaign to ratify the
Earth Constitution under the provisions set
forth in Article 17. Since 1982, the WCPA has also
organized sessions of the Provisional World
Parliament, the first of which was in Brighton,
England and the tenth session of which was in Kara,
Togo in 2007. Under the authority of Article 19 of
the Constitution, the Parliament debates and passes
provisional world legislation that serves as a model
and a guide for developing democratic world
government. The Parliament also works toward a
founding ratification convention at which the
nations and people of Earth join together to ratify
the Constitution and initiate a new demilitarized,
democratic world order.
United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
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United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
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TA United
Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) is a
proposed addition to the United Nations
System that would allow for participation of
member nations' legislators and, eventually,
direct election of United Nations (UN)
parliament members by citizens worldwide.
The idea was raised at the founding of the
League of Nations in the 1920s and again
following the end of World War II in 1945,
but remained dormant throughout the Cold
War. |
In the 1990s and
2000s, the rise of global trade and the power of world
organizations that govern it led to calls for a parliamentary
assembly to scrutinize their activity.[12] The Campaign for the
Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly was
formed in 2007 to coordinate pro-UNPA efforts, which as of
February 2009 has received the support of over 600 Members of
Parliament from over 90 countries worldwide.
The current global governance system
As of 2009, there
is no functioning global international military, executive,
legislature, judiciary, or constitution, with jurisdiction over
the entire planet.
The Earth is divided geographically and demographically into
mutually-exclusive territories and political structures called
states which are independent and sovereign in most cases. One
may also make the case that political and economical
independence although related are not the same and even though
former colonies have acquired political independence since World
War II, they have become more dependent financially upon each
other. There are numerous bodies, institutions, unions,
coalitions, agreements and contracts between these units of
authority, but except in cases where a nation is under military
occupation by another all such arrangements depend on the
continued consent of the participant nations. Thus the use of
violence is unprohibited throughout the realm and is only
checked by the threat of retaliatory violence or nonviolent
sanctions (see Gene Sharp), so where no such threat exists a
nation may use violence against another.
Among the voluntary organizations and international arrangements
the following are:
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The United
Nations (UN) is the primary formal organization coordinating
activities between states on a global scale and the only
inter-governmental organization with a truly universal
membership (192 governments). In addition to the main organs
and various humanitarian programs and commissions of the UN
itself, there are about 20 functional organizations
affiliated with the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC),
such as the World Health Organization, the International
Labour Organization, and International Telecommunications
Union.[14] Of particular interest politically are the World
Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade
Organization.
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The World
Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), were formed
together at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New
Hampshire, United States in July 1944, to foster global
monetary cooperation and to fight poverty by financially
assisting states in need. The World Trade Organization (WTO)
sets the rules of international trade. It already has a
semi-legislative body (The General Council, reaching
decisions by consensus), and a judicial body (The Dispute
Settlement Body). Another influential economical
international organization is the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD), with membership of 30
democratic members.
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G8, an
association of the eight highest GDP Nations of the World.
The leaders of the G8 countries meet annually in person to
coordinate their policies in confronting global issues, such
as poverty, terrorism, infectious diseases, and climate
change.
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G20, an
association of twenty developing and established nations and
entities, including the European Union.
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Militarily,
the UN deploys peacekeeping forces, usually to build and
maintain post-conflict peace and stability. When a more
aggressive international military action is undertaken,
either ad-hoc coalitions (e.g., multinational force in
Iraq), or regional military alliances (eg, NATO) are used.
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International
law encompasses international treaties, customs, and
globally acceptable legal principles. With the exceptions of
cases brought before the ICC and ICJ (see below), the laws
are interpreted by national courts. Many violations of
treaty or customary law obligations are overlooked.
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The
International Court of Justice (ICJ) (also known as World
Court) is the judiciary organ of the United Nations. It
settles disputes submitted to it voluntarily by states
(only), and gives advisory opinions on legal questions
submitted to it by other organs of the UN, such as the
General Assembly or Security Council.
A recent
development in international law is the International Criminal
Court (ICC), the first ever permanent international criminal
court, which was established to ensure that the gravest
international crimes do not go unpunished. The ICC treaty was
signed by 139 national governments, of which 100 ratified it
into law by October 2005.
In addition to the formal, or semi-formal, international
organizations and laws mentioned above, many other mechanisms
act to regulate human activities across national borders. In
particular, international trade in goods, services and
currencies (the "global market") has a tremendous impact on the
lives of people in almost all parts of the world, creating deep
interdependency amongst nations (see globalization).
Trans-national (or multi-national) corporations, some with
resources exceeding those available to most governments, govern
activities of people on a global scale. The rapid increase in
the volume of trans-border digital communications and mass-media
distribution (e.g., Internet, satellite television) has allowed
information, ideas, and opinions to rapidly spread across the
world, creating a complex web of international coordination and
influence, mostly outside the control of any formal
organizations or laws.
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