邁向儒家式的全球治理

Towards a Confucian Global Governance

Private and state-owned enterprises now rule societies as never before. As a result, the global economy is no longer oriented towards welfare for everybody, but to the maximization of investors' profits, resulting in the widening of the richpoor gap. The mechanisms that were intended to guarantee power for the democratic majority have become means to sustain strong elites, who derive power from their relationship to national and international economic might. Simultaneously, tolerance, dialogue, and solidarity are destroyed by socioeconomic conflicts, punitive wars and a variety of discriminations that still prevail, which lead to increased domestic securitization1 and an arms race to compete with foreign opponents. Together, these factors have incubated two major threats to human life: firstly, the incendiary spiral that could trigger a nuclear war; and secondly, the loss of real conditions for human reproduction as a result of environmental deterioration. Both scenarios represent a grave threat to mankind, and require effective international agreements in order to prevent disaster.