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Fixing global governance : Comments
By James Page, published 29/10/2015The complexity of the current situation is perhaps best illustrated by the growing world migration and refugee crisis.
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The idea that the UN could evolve into a benevolent global government is laughable. It is riven with factionalism and conflict, largely ineffectual on things that actually matter, and has a bloated and inefficient bureaucracy. This is the organisation that not only put Saudi Arabia on its Human Rights Council, it actually gave it the chair of an important committee.
We can also look to the EU for extensive evidence of how supra-national jurisdictions routinely ignore or evade democratic accountability.
We need better international institutions, but not more powerful ones