I propose “International cooperation” (which would go under the Policy parent topic).
Background: I just tried tagging this post, but there doesn’t appear to be a tag in the vicinity of international cooperation. “Global governance” feels too strong.[1] Other existing tags also don’t feel close enough.[2] I think international cooperation is an important and frequently-invoked enough topic to warrant its own tag / topic page.
Edited to add (~30 mins later): Since this is currently on my mind, I’ve gone ahead and created an “International cooperation” topic page. I won’t be offended if admins decide to take it down.
Edited to add (a few days later): I now realise that there’s an “International relations” tag. I’m not sure how I missed this when I looked through the existing tags a few days ago. This changes my view—I expect that tagging a post both “Global governance”, which is like international cooperation but stronger, and “International relations”, which is like international cooperation but without the cooperation, renders a new “International cooperation” tag redundant. Therefore, I now suggest that admins take down the topic page I created. (I would do this myself, but I don’t appear to have the power.) Apologies for any confusion caused. (I suppose the silver lining here was the follow-on about the FAQ page link.)
To me, global governance is almost synonymous with “world government”, and in fact the “Global governance” tag has the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s “World Governance” entry as further reading.
Someone—not the author, I don’t think—tagged the post I reference under “Altruistic coordination”. I can see where they’re coming from, but to me this tag doesn’t feel right overall: the coordination outlined in the post, and also most examples of state-level coordination/cooperation I can think of, are driven by self-interest to a (significantly) greater degree than by altruistic concern for the other party.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’m no longer working on the Wiki and I’m not sure there’s currently someone designated to approve or provide feedback on the proposals. Maybe @Lizka can comment?
@Lizka sorry to compound upon my above suggestion, but if, as Pablo says may be the case, no-one is currently approving or providing feedback on proposals here, perhaps this post/thread should no longer be linked to from the “EA Wiki: FAQ” page?[1]
Just in case this helps you find it more quickly: within that FAQ page, it’s linked toward the bottom at “you can propose it here and receive feedback”.
No need to apologize, and thanks for making the topic page, Will! I batch-approve and remove new Wiki entries sometimes (and reorganize the Wiki more generally), but I’m not prioritizing this right now. I do hope that we’ll get more attention on the Wiki soon, though (in the next couple of months). I’ve added a note to the Wiki FAQ — thanks for that suggestion!
I propose “International cooperation” (which would go under the Policy parent topic).
Background: I just tried tagging this post, but there doesn’t appear to be a tag in the vicinity of international cooperation. “Global governance” feels too strong.[1] Other existing tags also don’t feel close enough.[2] I think international cooperation is an important and frequently-invoked enough topic to warrant its own tag / topic page.
Edited to add (~30 mins later): Since this is currently on my mind, I’ve gone ahead and created an “International cooperation” topic page. I won’t be offended if admins decide to take it down.
Edited to add (a few days later): I now realise that there’s an “International relations” tag. I’m not sure how I missed this when I looked through the existing tags a few days ago. This changes my view—I expect that tagging a post both “Global governance”, which is like international cooperation but stronger, and “International relations”, which is like international cooperation but without the cooperation, renders a new “International cooperation” tag redundant. Therefore, I now suggest that admins take down the topic page I created. (I would do this myself, but I don’t appear to have the power.) Apologies for any confusion caused. (I suppose the silver lining here was the follow-on about the FAQ page link.)
To me, global governance is almost synonymous with “world government”, and in fact the “Global governance” tag has the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s “World Governance” entry as further reading.
Someone—not the author, I don’t think—tagged the post I reference under “Altruistic coordination”. I can see where they’re coming from, but to me this tag doesn’t feel right overall: the coordination outlined in the post, and also most examples of state-level coordination/cooperation I can think of, are driven by self-interest to a (significantly) greater degree than by altruistic concern for the other party.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’m no longer working on the Wiki and I’m not sure there’s currently someone designated to approve or provide feedback on the proposals. Maybe @Lizka can comment?
@Lizka sorry to compound upon my above suggestion, but if, as Pablo says may be the case, no-one is currently approving or providing feedback on proposals here, perhaps this post/thread should no longer be linked to from the “EA Wiki: FAQ” page?[1]
Just in case this helps you find it more quickly: within that FAQ page, it’s linked toward the bottom at “you can propose it here and receive feedback”.
No need to apologize, and thanks for making the topic page, Will! I batch-approve and remove new Wiki entries sometimes (and reorganize the Wiki more generally), but I’m not prioritizing this right now. I do hope that we’ll get more attention on the Wiki soon, though (in the next couple of months). I’ve added a note to the Wiki FAQ — thanks for that suggestion!