Who’s Afraid of Global Governance? If it’s done right, it’s neither utopian nor an authoritarian menace. And it’s needed urgently. It could be a matter of life and death for us all.
Let’s begin with some political theory. Aristotle, in his great treatise, the Politics, concluded that there are, basically, only two different kinds of governments in terms of the outcomes for a society — those that serve the common good, or the public interest, and those that have been co-opted to serve the self-interests of the people who hold political power.
