| Summary: | In the past few years, after 50 years on academic margins the debate on a
world government (or world state) is renewed. Traditionally it is followed by
aversion toward world state, nowdays called globoscepticism. The paper
focuses on classical liberal thinkers of eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
and their views on a world state, that have been rooted in early federal
peace proposals and analyses of modern political thinkers (Rousseau, Bentham,
Cobden, Mill, Smith, Mill). The author points out on Kant’s “federalism of
free states”, to show it did not imply support for world state but improved
international law. Also, it is confirmed that globoskepticism of the
classical British liberals, or their distrust of a world organization, arises
from general liberal distrust of a big state political organization. The
classical liberal attitude has been abandoned by new liberal
internationalists at the beginning of the twentieth century, but classical
liberal doctrine continues to have both an academic influence and practical
outcomes. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. OI179029: Srbija
u savremenim međunarodnim odnosima: Strateški pravci razvoja i učvršćivanja
položaja Srbije u međunarodnim integrativnim procesima - spoljnopolitički,
međunarodni, ekonomski, pravni i bezbednosni aspekti]
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