"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the new world order.
Richard Haas, President of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in 2006:
"Globalisation . . . implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker.
Sovereignty is one of these cherished rights that nations will give up only with "the right major
crisis. Gordon Brown put it like this:
"Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. . . . We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.
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