What political and judicial processes are missing at the international level which world federalists believe we must address?
At the international level there is no law to stop anti-social conduct, no elections to determine who will be the law-makers, no courts to decide impartially who is an aggressor and who is acting in self-defence, and no police to arrest individual law violators. In international disputes, nuclear warheads, long-range missiles and other forms of intimidation often become the ultimate authority. That is why nation-states build up their military forces even during peace. And military forces are often used indiscriminately in anti-terrorist campaigns, exacerbating the problem they are supposed to cure. This absence of elections, law-making and law enforcement can be regarded as the absence of what we usually call ‘governance’ at the level of international affairs, and this is what needs to be rectified.
