Should we be governed by a "world government"

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Dimpy Handa
Should we be governed by a "world government", with the United Nations Assembly becoming a directly elected parliament? Should nation-states give up more of their sovereignty to supranational institutions?

To attempt the solution of these problems through the negotiation of nearly 200 individual sovereign states is futile. Even if any agreement is possible it will be characterised by insufficiency because of compromise between the many different power interests of the separate sovereign states. Consequently, nation-states should cede sovereignty over very important international issues so that effective action can be taken.
 
It seems to me that in many popular depictions of Utopian futures, the Earth is governed as one global entity (e.g. Star Trek). This implies a desire for unity in government in a percentage of the general populace (else there would be no popularity)
 
In 1842, the English poet Lord Alfred Tennyson, published the oft-quoted lines "Locksley Hall":
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see / Saw a Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be /... / Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer / and the battle-flags were furled / In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. / There the common sense of most shall hold / a fretful realm in awe / And the kindly earth shall slumber / lapt in universal law.
 
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