Abstract
My thesis, as a convinced Americanist, is that these happy days are over. Like it or not, the Globalists have seized more readily the opportunities provided by the end of the Cold War to advance their agenda, building on an iceberg-like mass produced by years of writing, conference-going, resolution-passing and networking. In substantive field after field-human rights, labor, health, the environment, political-military affairs, and international organizations-the Globalists have been advancing while the Americanists have slept. Recent clashes in and around the United States Senate indicate that the Americanist party has awakened, and that the harm and costs to the United States of belittling our popular sovereignty and constitutionalism, and restricting both our domestic and our international policy flexibility and power are finally receiving attention. Nonetheless, Americanists find themselves surrounded by small armies of Globalists, each tightly clutching a favorite new treaty or multilateralist proposal.
Recommended Citation
Bolton, John R.
(2000)
"Should We Take Global Governance Seriously?,"
Chicago Journal of International Law:
Vol. 1:
No.
2, Article 2.
Available at:
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cjil/vol1/iss2/2