Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 21:27:16 -0600
Subject: Re: BHA: RE: Social and Historic forces as empirical proof in TR?




Ismail Lagardien wrote:
> 
> Dick
> 
> thanks for that... i am still working on these issues. as for mechanisms, i am considering the WTO as a "mechanism" for managing the global economy (See Hirst and Thompson 2000 p 191)...
> 
> yeah, i sent that message off too quickly... while I am looking at the social and historical forces that shaped the institutions of global governance, i am considering THEM as mechanisms.
> 

Since there is no "global governance," nor ever will be under
capitalism, there can hardly be mechanisms for that governance. The WTO
is just one of innumerable arrangements through which international
relations are managed. Governance remains the exclusive concern of
nation states.

(Whether there will ever be global governance in any mode of production
belongs to the realm of empty speculation. I doubt that there will ever
be, but wouldn't think it worthwhile to argue one way or the other. In a
world of socialist societies one hopes there will be peaceful
arrangements of some sort.)

Carrol



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