Milton,<div><br></div><div>Just an interesting quote on that concept of personal or individual sovereignty :</div><div><br><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><small><i><b>State sovereignty</b>, in its most basic sense, is being redefined—not least by the forces of globalisation and international co-operation. States are now widely understood to be instruments at the service of their peoples, and not vice versa. At the same time i<b>ndividual sovereignty</b>—by which I mean the fundamental freedom of each individual, enshrined in the charter of the </i></small><font size="1"><i>UN</i></font><small><i> and subsequent international treaties—has been enhanced by a renewed and spreading consciousness of individual rights. When we read the charter today, we are more than ever conscious that its aim is to protect individual human beings, not to protect those who abuse them.</i></small></span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>This paragraph is by none other than Kofi Annan in a 1999 article in the Economist titled : <b>Two concepts of sovereignty</b>. </div><div>Accessible here : <a href="http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/kaecon.html">http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/kaecon.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>The article was written about military interventions, in the wake of the Kosovo situation. It's interesting to read it now, in light of what has happened in the first few years of the XXIst century. Many quesstions K. Annan raised are still incredibly accurate. </div>
<div><br></div><div>But another quote from the same article resonates with something we exchanged earlier in this thread :</div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">A new, broader definition of national interest is needed in the new century, which would induce states to find greater unity in the pursuit of common goals and values. In the context of many of the challenges facing humanity today, the collective interest <i>is</i> the national interest.</span></blockquote>
<div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><small></small></span>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Bertrand</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Bertrand de La Chapelle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bdelachapelle@gmail.com">bdelachapelle@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Milton,<div><br></div><div>Do you actually mean a sort of "personal sovereignty" principle, that would enable individuals to gather in numerous human groupings, including nations, but also business and non-profit entities ? so that the unifying governance unit becomes stakeholders of various sizes but with equal status instead of three (or four) separate and siloed stakeholder groups ?</div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#888888">B.</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Milton L Mueller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu" target="_blank">mueller@syr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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From: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond [<a href="mailto:ocl@gih.com" target="_blank">ocl@gih.com</a>]<br>
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> - governments: law and order<br>
> - business: economy and money<br>
>- civil society: conscience<br>
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>Any social ecosystem requires all three to work. Take one out and either<br>
>the system will fail, tear itself apart, or reach an untenable extreme.<br>
>That's why I believe in multi-stakeholderism.<br>
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</div>Nice formulation, Olivier. But suppose we called it "popular sovereignty" and "individual rights" instead of "multistakeholderism" - would that not allow individuals, in various aggregations, to produce the appropriate mix of law, order, economy and conscience? Is not the division into three estates (with millions of individuals overlapping and participating in two or more at the same time) artificial?<br>
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