Review of Henrique de Pinheiro, The World State or the New Order of Common Sense (Rio de Janeiro: Grafica Olimpica, 1944)

Abstract

Abstract As a matter of principle Martin Wight professed a lack of interest in defining practical prescriptions to deal with immediate strategic and foreign policy issues, notably in his lecture “What Is International Relations?” “International confederations and world-state utopias can be as respectable as Penn and Saint-Pierre,” Wight wrote, “but few remain readable after the lapse of a couple of years. This one, written by a Brazilian diplomat in London during the ‘blitz,’ organizes the whole of humanity as a federal democracy on the highest Western ethical and juridical principles. It has nothing to do with the international politics which produce the structure and fitful functioning of the Security Council.”

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