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Is world government the only hope?

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Surveying the current world order, one might be forgiven for thinking that it is essentially ungovernable. Chaos, conflict and crises seem to be the order of the day. The phrase “international order” seems increasingly oxymoronic and as remote a prospect as that other staple of the disciplinary discourse, the “inter...

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