World Governance ― Do We Need It, Is It Possible, What Could It (All) Mean?

Jovan Babic is Professor of Ethics at the University of Belgrade and Visiting Professor at Portland State University. He is author of Kant and Scheler, and Morality and Our Time, both in Serbian, and numerous articles, including Justifying Forgiveness, Foreign armed Intervention: Between Justified Aid and Illegal Violence, in Humanitarian Intervention: Moral and Philosophical Issues, Toleration vs. Doctrinal Evil in Our Time, and Pacifism and Moral Integrity. Petar Bojanic is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy (CELAP) as well as the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade. He received his PhD from the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in France and University of Paris X in 2003. The author of numerous books on political philosophy, he has taught at Cornell University, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Belgrade. In the age of globalization and with increased interdependence in the world today, there is a question we should raise: 'do we need, and could we attain, a world government capable of ensuring peace and facilitating worldwide well-being in a just and efficient way?'