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Since there is so much conflicting information concerning the new world order it is difficult to clearly define exactly what it is. Fortunately, a professor of International Law at the University of Chicago did so and it was published in the Baltimore News-Post (p. 2) on December 8, 1941.
In the article, Dr. Quincy Wright described what he called "the new world order" as opposed to Hitlers' New Order) in which the sovereignty and independence of individual nations would be subject to the limitations set forth by a world government. In otherwords, the independence and sovereignty of the nations of the world, including the United States, would cease to exist. Wright went on to say that in addition to the world system that three continental systems would emerge, also under this world league. Among these would be a " 'United States of Europe', an Asiatic system and a Pan-American union". Each of these continental systems, according to Wright, would also have a common military force with national military forces being outlawed or greatly reduced.
The World System described by Wright has been evolving for the past fifty years in the form of "Free Trade Agreements". The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is the basis for the emerging world government system. The continental systems have been developing in conjunction with the world system. EFTA, the European Free Trade Association, has already evolved from a free trade agreement into the European Union, or as Wright put it a "United States of Europe". NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, evolved from the Canadian Free Trade Agreement and is scheduled to become the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) in the year 2005 according to AmericasNet, thereby integrating the western hemisphere into one continental bloc. The Asian system is emerging as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC). More information concerning the development of these systems may be found by looking in Britannica Online under "The Quest For A New World Order".
Historically, whenever the need for world government was called for, its supporters argued that it was the only way to ensure world peace. With the end of the Cold War, however, a new excuse was needed. Currently, it is being put forth that the reason that we must accept global government is that technology makes national boundaries obsolete.
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