Humanity faces grave dangers that can be avoided only by
international cooperation
The world does not
need a world government to govern itself. Roberto Mangabeira Unger
argues that there is an alternative: to build cooperation among
countries to advance their shared interests. We urgently need to
avert war between the United States and China, catastrophic climate
change, and other global public harms. We must do so, however, in a
world in which sovereign states remain in command.
The opportunity for
self-interested cooperation among nations is immense. Unger shows how
different types of coalitions among states can seize on this
opportunity and avoid the greatest dangers that we face. Unger offers
a way of thinking about international relations as well as a
transformative program: a realism with hope and a way to develop the
international diversity that we want without the international
anarchy that we fear. His ideas challenge the disillusionment and
fatalism that threaten to overwhelm us.