Pogge

Throughout chapter six, Pogge starts to make his case for showing that the affluent democracies of the world are to blame for the unlevel playing to field. On pages 154 – 155, he establishes three considerations that a fledgling democracy should take into consideration and these three play a prominent role when evaluating how his theory fits together. He then goes through and examines a number of ways by which a fledging democratic government could establish as deterrent effects. In 6.2 part of his suggestion would be for the government to come to an agreement, prior to that of a coup, preauthorizing military intervention. In 6.3 he puts forth as part of his theory that debt should not carry over after an undemocratic ruling. And that this is part of the problem, if not a major part of the problem, because countries are held responsible for the debt their unjust predecessors accumulated. The idea of “the Democracy Panel” whose job it would be to monitor elections and monitor constitutions. And the monitoring of this panel would only be that of broad democratic constitutions. A problem arises concerning who will fund this panel and universal Democratic Fund. Much of the financial support would ultimately rests on riches and most powerful countries. It seems like a lot of his theory involves deterrent implications on the fledging democratic states. One problem I am having trouble with is how is this connecting with his problem of world poverty? Is it by promoting democracy worldwide, it would reduce war and decrease human rights problems such as poverty?

Would any of this lead us toward the idea of a one world government (considering his suggestions about a “Democracy Panel” and a world police)? Would a one world government, if plausible, be a better solution to the problem? It may be a bit theoretical, but I personally think it may be a better solution to the problem, if it is even plausible; but I think that if democracy could be established independently among every country, then this wouldn’t be too far of a stretch.