ABSTRACT
The fundamental underlying problem is that the world is trying to deal with its crises under an obsolete international political system based on full sovereignty of 160-odd nation-states. In an effort to create a decision-making system within the United Nations under which nations will find it possible to disarm, as well as cope with many other urgent problems, the Centre for War/Peace Studies has developed the Binding Triad proposal. Once the Binding Triad system was in place in the General Assembly, the United Nations would have become the top level of a global federal system. Under the principles of federalism, the ideal is to retain maximum sovereignty at the individual level. However, for practical reasons in the common interest, such as public safety, individuals collectively delegate portions of their sovereignty to higher levels, such as city, county, state, and national governments.
