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Richard Hudson (Executive Director, Center for War/Peace Studies, New York) argues that the U.N. can become a world parliament, making global decisions on wars. The key notion is the adoption of a new three-part decision-making rule by all U.N. members. The nations would accept as "binding" decisions
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Two general decision limits are obtained. First, the U.N. would never make decisions about any nation's internal affairs, but only its international ones. Second, the U.N. would not have military forces of its own. Doubts would be referred to the U.N.'s World Court for resolution. Hudson also fields
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Hudson held three weekend "mock U.N. sessions" where the participants are actually from the diplomatic corps of U.N. members. These conferences are "trials" on how the new decision-making might go in "real life".
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with only one change to the U.N. Charter. However, further amendments would be needed to secure representative government. In addition, it is unclear what impact such a change would have on the role of the
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a few of the tough questions raised by his scheme. This ending, of course, invites viewers to their own questions about the scheme.
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The Binding Triad appeals to some world federalists because it could theoretically institute a
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of members. For a resolution to be binding, it would require the support of nations:
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those resolutions that carried two-thirds of the General Assembly (see above).
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Whose combined contributions in dues comprise a majority of the U.N. budget.
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Whose combined populations comprise a majority of the world population.
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