Global Polity
The global society of states; the perspective that the global political order can be understood as taking place as relative political unity in the global social order of states.
We may speak of the international community of states gathering at the United Nations, where a junta of major powers may decide on events in there global society, but basically the organization of the global political order is closer to anarchy, than it is to a functional commonwealth of nation-states, like the one envisaged in the UN Charter. Wars between entities are rare, but intra-polity conflicts fought between emerging polities within dissolving entities are numerous occurences on the planet today. Although United Nations Security Council do attend to most of them, they are still multiplying in numbers, due to the breakdown of political constitution in polities around the globe. The theory named Global Polity Theory grasps these breakdowns as major disturbing events in the global political order. By informing the theorems of Global Polity Theory with polity analysis, we seek to understand and explain the transaction economy of these events, and how other polities are becoming part of these conflicts. In the current global political order, external entities appear to be sucked into the conflict, whenever a vacuum occurs in the distribution of power. Here many so called secondary institutions, like the United Nations, play a substantial role in managing the global political order, and even economic institutions like International Monetary Fund/World Bank have a role to play, but it is mainly primary institutions like sovereignty and balance of power that drives happenings in the global political order, where alliances like the NATO, dominate. Global Polity Theory denotes a scientific perspective on global politics with the ambition to understand and explain events. It is published through this Substack!