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Currency Systems – a United Transnational Republics’ View
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| Globalisation is propelled by the „global players“ – globally acting corporations behaving like transnational superpowers constricting the influence of the traditional nations. Who then is still defending our global civil rights? Can nations act transnationally, or do they merely block one another? Is the traditional idea of the separation of powers rendered obsolete? Shouldn’t we take money (and the media) into consideration as the „fourth power“? Does the geopolitical division of people into nations reflect thespirit of modern times? Could we learn from Coca-Cola, Shell and Microsoft how interests can be realisedat a global level? April 16, 2001, these questions led to the proclamation of the First TRansnational Republic whose citizens are not defined through blood or birthplace but through a similarity in their minds and their communal spirit. The United Transnational Republics are dealing with the question how globalisation could be aligned with democracy. The initial point are the following considerations: transnational corporations are more influential than most nation states. The classical separation of powers (legislative, judicative, executive) needs to be expanded to include money as the forth power. Nations-states cannot represent their citizens’ transnational interests, as transnational and national interests are typically contradicting each other (e.g. Bush and the Kyoto Protocol). At the time being there is no transnational citizen representation – the UN is an assembly of various national interests. |