THE PROBLEM OF LEGITIMACY IN GLOBAL GOVERNMENT

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The issues already raised have unleashed a new discussion about the trend that modern States seem to be following regarding their organization. Samuel l. Huntington proposes a “realistic� response as he observes the world and the different civilizations that occupy it, and founds that they exists

in very diverse (when not

contradictory) cultural quadrants. Broadly speaking, Huntington in his book the shock of civilizations, notes a world organized in large cultural blocks - Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Islamic, Orthodox, Western, Latin American and perhaps African (Huntington 2002: 50) - which seem unlikely to be capable of melting into a single

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