Our loyalty to state may well be valuable, but it need not be exclusive, and we must recognize its contingency. Whereas the future of international law is not likely to be a world state, following the form of a national state, we already have a modest set of global government structures. To paraphrase a somewhat bawdy joke attributed to Winston Churchill, we’re already established that we need global government; we are just negotiating the extent. This book will show that the extent of our need for global government will change with technological, economic, social, and ideational change. This is no different than say that the scope of the responsibilities of the U.S. federal government ตรงข้ามกัน the states has changed since the founding of the republic