ABSTRACT
Our institutions of global governance, according to Errol Mendes and Ozay Mehmet, like us display hubris as their ‘tragic aw’:
The aspirations of humankind to eradicate the conditions that led to the Second World War and the evils that occurred … were soon overwhelmed by the tragic aw within the nature of humankind … [an] urge in human nature, which is then reected in the institutions of global governance, to seek the supremacy of territorial integrity over human integrity and dignity in the pursuit of perceived collective power and self-interest.2
