Jovan Babić

In the age of globalization and increased interdependence in the world that we face today, there is a question we have to raise: Do we need and could we attain a world government, capable of insuring peace and facilitating worldwide wellbeing in a just and efficient way. We may think that the issue of world governance is something new, but it is not. Every era has its version of ―globalization‖. The ―issue‖ of world governance has always existed. There are two main ways in which the authority of a state, or a country, could be articulated: first, as a ―kingdom‖ (in a sense) where a people claims a right to self-rule and independence, and then the jurisdiction should be defined as the territory that the people are inhabiting, and, second, as an ―empire‖, where the country is defined just as a territory on which there is a certain law accepted as a common rule of the social life. In the second case there is no space limitation of the territory, and the state might be as big as the central government could possibly extend its control and enforcement of its laws. In principle an empire could cover the whole world; there is nothing contradictory in that concept.