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February 19, 2025 Security & Conflict Resolution

Democracy in a multipolar political world

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The new US administration has - in a way that needs no further comment - given an additional impulse to the already ongoing development in the direction of a multipolar political world based on sheer power. Under present and to be expected future circumstances, I believe any global democratic perspective can only be workable taking in account this global change.

For Europe, this results in the necessity to develop an own robust security strategy in order to protect itself and its member states as well as to further develop European democracy while leaving room for democratic self determination of and within the member states (coalition of the willing?!). Both could be an European contribution to a more peaceful and democratic world.

Unluckily, several recent experiences in democratic states have shown that democratic structures are not resilient if contested by people or groups who want to harm them. One recent example is how the division of the executive, legislative, and judicial power in the US is contested by the president and his team who seem to neglect the authority of justice („He who saves his Country does not violate any Law“). Such experiences, I believe, make it necessary also to rethink concepts of any kind of supranational government even if based on democratic elections. 

Taken together, the unfolding multipolar political world and the dangers of misused democratic structures require a thorough rethinking of suitable ways to reach a peaceful and more democratic world. Obviously not knowing the answer, I assume that this will mean to go for an approach of stepwise developing democracy further on a national as on a supranational (e.g., European) level, not knowing what will be the exact outcome in the end (there will probably not be a defined end, though) but hoping to protect democratic values and to avoid severe mistakes by this approach.

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  1. user avatar
    March 6, 2025
    RasmusTenbergen

    A good contribution to the discussion!

  2. user avatar
    March 9, 2025
    RasmusTenbergen

    What does this mean for our project? I think your reference to Europe is important: The EU is partly disfunctional because of the veto power of every member state.  New models are necessary (and discussed for centuries, different speeds etc.). Why not test them here? A simple logic: Establish a core EU with majority vote (or double majority: states and inhabitants). Those who accept this are in, the others outside the core. I will post this as a Proposal to continue the discussion.

  3. user avatar
    March 9, 2025
    mcw

    I agree - think we need to strengthen the EU politically by enabling majority votes for decisions on Global and security issues.

    A parallel next step could be a considerably smaller group of European states including Britain plus Canada and Japan and possibly other states that all have in common western democracy values and a strong commitment to human rights. These might form into a political and military power able to replace the NATO if need be but with a strong democratic component.

    I confess that I do not believe in any direct path to global democracy anymore but think that progress in this direction could only be a result of the cooperation of the aforementioned "group of the willing" with other states or groups of states sharing the same political ideas as well as a strong commitment to human rights. In my view, the United Nations will not be a suitable platform for this.

    Happy to discuss these admittedly very rough and sketchy and maybe naive thoughts!

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    March 19, 2025
    RasmusTenbergen

    I agree regarding the "group of the willing" on the state level. Imho we also need a "group of the willing individuals" who organize themselves beyond the state level, for example here...

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