World system level of governance

Excuse-me for cross-posting, but this question is haunting me since various
days for it the European Union decision to create a double speed system for
the integration of new countries. Excuse-me also for my English writing,
I'm French.

My question is:  which is the correct level of governance for the humanity
in this era of globalization?

This is related with the definition of governance power and the actual
level democratic decision will reach in the future.

Historically, the concentration of power have always been present in
political evolution in a strange movement of give-and-take. I mean, the
tribal clannishness was tranformed by the arising of the village concept
which at its turn loose its relevancy for the region and this one for the
state and the state loose ground in its decision fields when signing
bilateral agreements followed by multilateral treaties most of the time
limited to economics relations as NAFTA, ASEAN, APEC, etc and, recently,
national states found expansion paths in the cooperation with other states
to create international entities as the European Union or the disapeared
USSR. The only world entity is the UN, but, as transnational companies
require international laws to open the world market at full they have been
sponsoring the arising of technical monsters as WTO, a decision making
entity without any democratic control.

The point is that we have our ass in between two chairs. In one position we
have no world democratic tools and, in the other one, capital and
transnational companies have already conquered the world authority, they
are owning the global decision tools alone. So, which ought to be our
strategy? Do we have to try to stop the globalization of the democracy or
do we have to catch up the international level?

The European Union is under the control of corrupted people (as Lamy, the
French commisioner) in a way to give away our last pieces of independance
(health, culture, education...) to the big market. But who can act in this
indecent misuse of power? The European Union system is too far away from
the citizen, I'm convinced of that, but, at the same time the capital and
transnational power are also far away from the EU level. I mean there is a
disruption from the citizen level to the UE level and another disruption
from the UE level to the capital and trnasnational level. The gap in
between the citizen and the powerfuls is really deep.

In a way or another we have to establish a democratic control on
international entities, starting with the UE in a way to drive under
control the European Commission thanks to the reshaping of the Parliament
authority. Thus the transformation of each international economical body
into a democratic tool to define international policies will be the
challenge of the next century.

When this future democratic supranational entities will have access to lay
down national policies to their members, not only in economical matters but
on a broad range of human activities, we shall then start to establish a
real democratic control on world decision bodies, I mean establish real
decision world bodies with an authority to impose worldwide regulations,
laws and policies.

These world entities still to be defined. The concept of UN is obsolet and
too easily corruptible: the power of the decision is owned by the richest
country and the Security Council is a misrepresentation of the world
populations. Current UNO have nothing to do with a democratic
representation of the world.

If we refer to history again, the give-and-take evolution of the decision
level could be applied to the future evolution of the world system. When
the kingdoms were created, joining several duchies or earldoms, the power
of decision arise to the national level and left the local level.
Throughout history and revolutions, kingdoms turned into democratic states
and democracy became the world most recognized beneficial concept for
populations. Recently, thanks to the creation of regional entities or with
the empowerment of existing subdivisions, as the State in USA or Mexico or
the regions in the European countries, the decision level have been splited
in several stages. Some sectors of the human activity are under the
responsability of the nation state, other ones are under the regional
authority.

We are now on a new step of the world system evolution in which the
national decision-makers have decided to give up part of their
responsabilities to supra-entities as the European Union, which policy
making tool is totally outside any democratic control, or, still worse, the
WTO.

The *give* movement ought to be now the consquest of the supranational
democracy, and the *take* movement will be the split of each human activity
in between the future decision levels.
In the future, the world system will probably at least be divided into four
levels of decision, each one with its own remits. For example regional
level could be in charge of cultural, educational, social matters; national
level in charge of employment, agricultural, health, police; supranational
in charge of energy, industry, transportation and world level could take
care of envirronmental matters, financial control, international security,
political campaign funding... Of course, some sectors should be splited in
different levels depending on their working field, as justice which could
be a regional matter if related with traditional concepts or could be
considered as a worldwide affair if related with genocide or war.

As complex our system world is turning to, as close to people's hand the
decision level have to be kept. The representativeness' power of the
elected people is directly linked with the sociological feeling of the
elector that he could met, if necesary, his representant. It's then obvious
that the far is the decision level from the inhabitant of a town or a
village, the less he would be interested in political matters. I think that
the decision levels should be determinated in a way to be as close as
possible with people, only matters requiring large perspectives should be
left to supranational and worldwide entities but always under a democratic
control.
This concept of distributing remits in accordance with the capacity of each
decision level is the only way to avoid the current gap in between the
citizen and the decision makers.
Actually, few proposals are related with this idea, the today's strategy is
based on the strengthening of the supranational bodies and a total
relinquishment of the social benefits to the appetite of the free-market
without any democratic control.

Some ideas arise, one is to stabilize world competition in a way to create
a sustainable world. Check out more at http://www.simpol.org. You are
invited to express your comments on this subject to define future paths.

Thank you

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