Chapter 7.3.

👉The table of contents so far is here.

Chapter 7: Specifics of the Organization of the World Commonwealth - Part 1 -

7.3. The World Commonwealth and the Grand-Zone

The World Commonwealth, which is composed of the constituent Zones,  is formed by a World Commons' Convention as its highest decision-making body, but it also has a dual structure that includes comprehensive regions that are larger than the Zones - the Grand-Zones.

Each  pan-region is formed as a loose association of surrounding regions that share cultural commonalities. There is no unique way to divide it, but as an example, I proposes the following five divisions.

(I) Pan-Eastern Asia-Oceania Zone: East Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania

(II) Pan-Western Asia-Indian Ocean Zone: West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Indian Ocean

(III) Pan-European-Siberian Zone: Europe, Russia (including Siberia)

(IV) Pan-African-South Atlantic Zone: Africa, South Atlantic

(V) Pan-American-Caribbean Zone: North and South America, Caribbean

*1 Antarctica shall be under direct control of the World Commonwealth.

*2 Enclaves like the current overseas territories/provinces shall not be recognized, and shall be strictly divided into adjacent regions (overseas territories/provinces shall either become independent Zones or be merged with neighboring Zones).

A Zone can only participate in one Grand-Zone, but Zones in border areas can participate as observers in another neighboring Grand-Zone. These Grand-Zones function as decentralized mechanisms within the World Commonwealth, and matters that should be handled regionally are decided at the Grand-Zonal level.

Grand-Zones overlap with today's regional integration bodies such as the European Union and African Union, and similarities can be seen, but it must be kept in mind that each Grand-Zone is not an independent and competing regional bloc, but rather is ultimately a decentralized body within the World Commonwealth.

A Grand-Zone is itself a community with the Commons' Convention as its highest decision-making body. However, in order to avoid the division into regional blocks, delegates to the Grand-Zonal Commons' Convention shall be selected by the Commons' Convention of each broad area within the constituent Zones (in the case of a federal Zone, each of Quasi-Zones, the Zonelets, that make up the federal Zone).

In this case, since the number of broad areas within a Zone varies from one Zone to another, in order to ensure fairness, the number of broad areas that can send delegates to the Grand-Zonal Commons' Convention shall be limited to, for example, 20. The method of selecting the 20 areas shall be left to the discretion of each Zone, but here too, a lottery system that excludes candidate areas from being elected for two consecutive terms is considered to be the fairest and least controversial method.

Furthermore, in accordance with the above-mentioned purpose of avoiding the division into regional blocks, voting by Zone as a whole is prohibited in the resolutions of the Grand-Zonal Commons' Convention, and each broad area that has delegates must vote individually.

👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism. 

Chapter 7.2.

👉The table of contents so far is here.

Chapter 7: Specifics of the Organization of the World Commonwealth - Part 1 -

7.2. The World Commons' Convention

In the previous chapter, I explained that in its final, completed form, the World Commonwealth will function as an transnational network organization, with the World Commons' Convention as its base and the Commons' Conventions of each of its constituent Zones organically linked together. In other words, the core of the World  Commonwealth is the World Commons' Convention.

The organizational structure of the Commons' Convention has already been discussed in Chapters 3 and 4, but those chapters dealt exclusively with the organizational structure of the Commons' Conventions in each of the Zones that make up the World Commonwealth and the local authorities within those Zones. This chapter and the next chapter will deal with the organizational structure of the World Commons' Convention in the World Commonwealth.

The World Commons' Convention is an institution that serves as the general assembly of the World Commonwealth, and its official name will be the dual name such as "The World Commons' Convention-World Commonwealth General Assembly," but what makes it fundamentally different from the current UN General Assembly is its structure. The UN General Assembly is composed of UN member states, and as such, the General Assembly tends to be limited to an end-of-year "face-showing" ceremony by the leaders of each state, with no substantive deliberations on the agenda, and practical negotiations are carried out at the level of UN ambassadors (foreign affairs bureaucrats).

Moreover, since the UN General Assembly is a gathering of representatives of UN member states, each of which has equal sovereignty, it is natural that the interests of each state become intertwined, treaty negotiations become a game of political maneuvering, and the success or failure and content of UN treaties are heavily influenced by conflicts of interest within the five major states in particular.

The greatest task of the World Commons' Convention is also to deliberate and pass decisions on treaties, but unlike current UN treaties which are not binding on member states unless ratified by each member state, treaties of the World Commons' Convention as a "law" (world law), will bind each of the Zones that make up the World Commonwealth, without exception. Therefore, deliberations and decisions are made by delegates (ambassador delegates) who represent each Zone and have a certain democratic foundation.

However, they are not elected by direct election, but by an indirect Election system by the Commons' Convention of each Zone, and after election they will also serve as special delegates of the Commons' Convention of their home Zone (special delegates can participate in deliberations but cannot participate in voting).

In the case of a Joint-Zone made up of multiple Zones, each of the member Zones will send one ambassador delegate (joint delegate) to represent the Joint-Zone on a rotating basis every six months. However, in the case of a larger Joint-Zone of ​​eight or more Zones, two joint delegates may be sent.

Joint member Zones that do not send a joint delegate may each send one vice-delegate. The vice-delegate assists the joint delegate and has the task of directing the joint delegate's activities so that they are not biased towards the interests of their Zone of ​​origin, but rather for the benefit of the entire Joint-Zone.

👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism. 

Chapter 7.1.

👉The table of contents so far is here.

Chapter 7: Specifics of the Organization of the World Commonwealth - Part 1 -

7.1. The World Commonwealth and The Zone

In the previous chapter, the World Commonwealth was defined as a global community composed of "Zones," which are zonal bodies that reserve the right of autonomous governance within a certain geographical domain. In other words, the World Commonwealth is a collection of zones.

Unlike existing sovereign states, the Zone is no longer a "country." However, it is a zonal public entity that is recognized for autonomous governance based on the Commons' Convention within a certain domain. These Zones are the components of the World Commonwealth. They can be broadly divided into two types.

The first is the single Zone. As the name suggests, it is a region that forms an independent territory, and is the most standard region where unified administration is carried out around the General Commons' Convention.

The single Zones are further divided into the unitary Zone and the federal Zone. This difference is similar to the difference between the centralized and federal types in the current state system, with the unitary Zone being centralized and the federal Zone being federal. The federal Zones are made up of a union of multiple Quasi-Zones (the Zonelet) that retain a high degree of autonomy similar to that of the Zones, but as a whole they form a single Zone and do not independently constitute the World Commonwealth.

The second type, the Joint-Zone, is one in which multiple Zones (up to a dozen Zones) enter into an agreement to form a joint entity. It is somewhat confusing with the federal Zone, but unlike the federal Zone, it is merely a loose union of multiple Zones, and is not a single Zone as a whole.

However, rather than simply a friendly and good-neighborly group, a Joint-Zone will formulate common economic plans and set up a permanent policy coordination organization to coordinate the implementation of important policies. Furthermore, a single representative delegate is sent to the World Commonwealth on a rotating basis for each session, so there is a strong sense of unity. Therefore, it will usually be formed between neighboring Zones that share strong ethnic and cultural unity.

The number of member states in the current United Nations is increasing year by year, currently standing at nearly 200 countries, but this has made the UN too large, with the interests of countries large and small intertwined, making smooth international decision-making difficult. As a result, the UN is in danger of losing its effectiveness and becoming merely a ceremonial entity.

In response to this, in order for the World Commonwealth to become a real decision-making body for the world's common people, it is necessary to narrow down the number of the Zones participating in the resolutions of the World Commonwealth General Assembly/the World Commons' Convention to a maximum of less than 100. When this happens, it is expected that the Joint-Zones mentioned above will be utilized.

👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.