8 thoughts on “Subsidiarity Requires International Institutions

    1. @M. Farmer,
      Quite a lot, actually – much of American overreach in international affairs can only really be resolved in anything like an orderly fashion if there are international institutions in place to take up the slack that are not so wholly dependent on the US and a handful of other post-imperialist developed countries.Report

  1. I don’t think this is quite right. As I read you, you’re trying to argue that international institutions acquire whatever authority they need to handle ostensibly global problems, which is not I believe part of subsidiarity.Report

  2. Not only is subsidiarity itself only half the picture, subsidiarity demands all kinds of things–like robust international institutions!–that many American small-government types explicitly oppose.

    Precisely!Report

  3. Here’s the rub though: robust international institutions, if they are not so powerless as to be mere paper tigers, tend to attract more and more power to themselves, subsidiarity be damned. We’ve seen it with the US federal government and it’s happening right now in the EU. Is it possible at all to counteract that trend?Report

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