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Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present

Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present doi 10.1215/0961754X-2732856 Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present (New York: Penguin, 2012), 475 pp. This book takes readers on what begins as a philosophical voyage of breathless scope to explore two centuries of visions, hopes, and fears about the possibility of world governance, only to end on a bleak note: "Our representatives continue to hand over power to experts and self-interested regulators in the name of efficient global governance while a skeptical and alienated public looks on. The idea of governing the world is becoming yesterday's dream." An earlier volume by Mark Mazower, professor of history at Columbia University--No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations -- stressed the importance of British imperial thought, along with the significance of President Woodrow Wilson's aims, in the formation of the League of Nations, and saw the UN as intended to be "in many ways a continuation of the earlier body." The present book covers much the same territory and makes similar claims about the League and the UN. But it expands the focus, first to a closer examination of nineteenth-century views of governance that inspired http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present

Common Knowledge , Volume 20 (3) – Sep 21, 2014

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doi 10.1215/0961754X-2732856 Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present (New York: Penguin, 2012), 475 pp. This book takes readers on what begins as a philosophical voyage of breathless scope to explore two centuries of visions, hopes, and fears about the possibility of world governance, only to end on a bleak note: "Our representatives continue to hand over power to experts and self-interested regulators in the name of efficient global governance while a skeptical and alienated public looks on. The idea of governing the world is becoming yesterday's dream." An earlier volume by Mark Mazower, professor of history at Columbia University--No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations -- stressed the importance of British imperial thought, along with the significance of President Woodrow Wilson's aims, in the formation of the League of Nations, and saw the UN as intended to be "in many ways a continuation of the earlier body." The present book covers much the same territory and makes similar claims about the League and the UN. But it expands the focus, first to a closer examination of nineteenth-century views of governance that inspired

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