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RI2014 April 2th, 2013 The slow and obsolete transition of the World Government The arrival of the new millennium brings to us a new era of industrial development and technologies. We can communicate through long distances in a really short period of time. We have smaller devices that can carry tons of information, and buy with just one click its a reality. Its a really comfortable life consequence of the globalization, but this process also carried a lot of new problems to the organization of the world. The proximity among not only the cultures but the governments in economic terms brings up the creation of international organisms. After World War II the whole future structure of international relationships was constituted, but the problems of 21st century exceeds it capacity and need to be reformed if the powers of the world want to keep this international system. In 1945, sixty eight years ago, the problem was that the economy, as we known, was destroyed by war, so the solutions applied were economic trying to reactivate commerce. Now, we realized that the world is more than markets, products and money; put in the scenario topics as health, education and human rights is really important in order to reach progress. Certainly we could see the way we have been studying International Organizations as an analogy of how we conceive the world. At the beginning, it was the search of power that bring us to the colonialism, then we understand that a better structure will needed to take advantage from the resources, so started with capitalism

where some rules and everyone else obeys, and now we are in a transition to another sort of cooperative system: a voluntary one. The article of The Economist: What a way to run the world states the context and the main issues that face the International Organizations (IOs) in new millennia. The main one: institutions are exclusive and the way they treat some of the principal problems as oil, hunger, AIDS or global warming is incomplete for the lack of perspective because of the absence of the nations directly involved; second: the problems exceed the capacities of the OIs and today are bigger and grow faster than ever; and third: the emergent economies gives a whole new perspective of the world making new centers of power that being a counterweight to USA and the whole traditional western block. This vision is coherent about what are we living at this moment. Also the technological revolution has shortened the distances and allowed the people join to the economic mainstream making the traditional information channels away. This conception of unit as world was established at the end of the Cold War with the fall of Berlins Wall on November 11 of 19891. The moment of reach solutions2 has arrived in order to maintain the global structure. Although the status quo remains untouchable, the line of action needs to be changed. The article affirms that a reform needs to be done to work according the new

The journalist and three times winner of Pullitzer prize Thomas Friedman writes in his book The world is flat about the ten flatteners of the world (where flat is understand as everyone is at the same level to compete in the international arena) and the first flattener is the fall of Berlins Wall because finishes with the bipolar system and allows the society conceive the world as one; also in that year was the boom of IBM and Windows as technological tools that you can have at home; access to internet and huge amount of information through a friendly interface was a reality.
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According to this point, the British historian Paul Kennedy, in his book The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present and Future of the United Nation, says that the reforms are really necessary because no single nation can do it alone. Two neuralgic points in that process a re: shake up the system, cut back on overlapping agencies, and sack all those high-paid international bureaucrats, and an enhance its capacities and effectiveness, thus boosting its position in the eyes of governments and publics talking about institutions, particularly United Nations.

scenario and need to have three constraints: first, better institutions will not solve intractable problems. A larger G8 will not automatically lick inflation; a better World Food Programme will not stop hunger. Second, no matter how you reform the clubs membership rules, somebody somewhere will feel left out. Third, you cannot start again (The Economist, p. 2) So the risk is that besides the good work, in terms of economy, that had been done, the presence and authority of the traditional institution under the premise of obey the instruction is getting lost. Because in Cold War we have two super-powers in a bipolar system; after that starts the unipolar era followed by a multipolar one, but now there is non-polar state because the rise of new international actors. This forces to look around the globe and start to pay attention to emerging economies. The new blocks3 are constituted by Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa (BRICS) and some could add Mexico in a moment, and practically the whole sector of the Pacific starts to be of really important in the economic development. The old system of clubs (as are defined in the article) could not be maintained anymore because these are designed for fight against worst of the cases like recession, war, economics depression theres no such thing as policies for progress or at least preventive policies. We always think that tomorrow is going to be war (quite ironic at the moment Im writing these lines) but we are not thinking that tomorrow we will be at equilibrium. Nevertheless, at this non-polar world, new types of exclusive clubs are rising. In America we have Mercado Comn del Sur (MERCOSUR) with Argentina, Brazil,
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In the article of the economist Marcus Noland American Economics Relations with Asia states the nature of these new blocks not just as economic powers but as regional cooperative forces as a response to the absence of adequate reform at the global level, also says that Asia holds the key, combining both dissatisfaction with existing global arrangements with the resources reconstitute, at least at the regional level, an alternative set of institutions and practices depending in how Asia responds, acting to strengthen reformed global institutions or undermine them in favor of regional alternatives, will partly depend on the policies of the dominant global power, the USA.

Uruguay and Venezuela, the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Mexico, Canada and United States of America. The European Union perhaps is the most required example, but Asia is pretty concerning to the Big Brother with the consolidation of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) with Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei, Lao, Brunei Darussalam and Myanmar. These consider, obviously, the power of Japan, Korea and China4 in the Asian-Pacific Economic Organization. This put us on a paradox because starts a new multi polarity but now creates little cliques were, however, the countries that integrates them fight to rule the zone. However, this structure of regionalism start to give some results as a sincere act of support the brother nations of the area (and eventually the world) At the first place looking that the members are economically wealth in order to start to grow up at the same time. Then, look in what and how they could support themselves to reach certain objectives that guarantee the integrity of that wealth. And its translated into the topics mentioned before. Adding the topics to the agenda mentioned at the beginning of the essay is crucial. We dont want to sound kind of holistic or metaphysical but the way we run the world (the materialistic) has led us to a period where no one is ready to yield due to a monetary wealth. If there is not a monetary benefit then there is no business. Under this premise the most terrible acts were driven. The economic indicators of a country could say us that are wealth, but if we enter to it we will see that good numbers doesnt
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As we have seen, the regionalization seems to be the natural response to globalization. The scholar Woosik Moon, Graduate School of International Studies of the Seoul National University agrees with this idea. On the paper Whither East Asian economic integration? Koreas regionalization cum globalization strategy globalization and regionalization processes are mutually reinforcing giving, particularly Korea the opportunity of establish two free trade areas: one with United States and the other one with European Union. The future evolution of the region depends on the integration of the countries of the north (APEC) with the countries of the south (ASEAN).

necessarily means that the people are doing well. A substantial differentiation need to be done between government and people. Theres the importance of not just pay attention to numbers. A country represents more than that: education, health, infrastructure, technology, human capital and knowledge. If this is taken more seriously than the war games a change is possible. There is a Hindi word (Namaste) that means salutations to you as a recognition of the other as yourself. This kind of thinking is required at this moment in order to start a voluntary cooperative. Nor could such a club solve pressing global problems. Coping with climate change needs China as well as India; energy security needs Saudi Arabia and Russia, as well as oil-dependent Japan or the Europeans (The Economist, p. 14) We need to start look for global solutions that prevent men grieve together, and leave them free to organize their own career aspirations and progress (Friedman5, M. p.19) but for that is necessary to assure that every man is free to trust in himself and in the institutions around him. These institutions could maintain the structure but needs to start to focus their efforts to a more sublime objective: the realization of the mankind.

Nobel Prize Milton Friedman presents on his book Freedom to Choice that the free market works best for all members of society and, through examples, how engenders prosperity solving problems where other approaches had failed. Advocate for laissez-faire economic policies

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