ALSO, UN was created post WW2. Maybe we only have appetite for major international cooperation after nasty wars?
This seems like point worth highlighting, especially vis-à-vis Bostrom’s own views about the importance of global governance in ‘The Vulnerable World Hypothesis’. Worth also noting that the League of Nations was created in the aftermath of WW1.
This line of inquiry (that rebuilding after wars is quite different from other periods of time) is explored in G. John Ikenberry’s After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars. A quick and entertaining summary of the book—and how it has held up since its publication—was written by Ikenberry in 2018: Reflections on After Victory.
This seems like point worth highlighting, especially vis-à-vis Bostrom’s own views about the importance of global governance in ‘The Vulnerable World Hypothesis’. Worth also noting that the League of Nations was created in the aftermath of WW1.
This line of inquiry (that rebuilding after wars is quite different from other periods of time) is explored in G. John Ikenberry’s After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars. A quick and entertaining summary of the book—and how it has held up since its publication—was written by Ikenberry in 2018: Reflections on After Victory.
Thank you for those references!