The Unipolar World Order versus The Multipolar World Order

A NEW (KINDA OLD) WORLD ORDER!

By Professor Gilbert Morris
Nassau, NP, The Bahamas

Every American founding father - in letters and speeches - lusted after the creation of a global U.S. empire; with the exception of Alexander Hamilton (the Caribbean man, born in Nevis).

The empire emerged as American aristocratic novelist Gore Vidal explored in 5 historical novels beginning in 1824 with the Monroe Doctrine.

(The novels, all brilliant: Empire, Burr, 1876, Lincoln, United States)

Henry Kissinger took the view - beyond international law - that there was a “collective superpower prerogative”, so that Russia-China-US (with EU and Africa at the children’s table) should reflect the structure of the world order.

That is to say: Kissinger believed that led by the U.S., together with Russia and China, they should set the global agenda and the rest of the world should follow!

The Reaganites accused Kissinger of being “anti-American” for expousing a variety of multipolarity.  That is, Reagan attacked Kissinger for not promoting the idea of “America first and leading with the other superpowers following and the rest of the world following them.

I leave it to you to determine whether Reagan should ever have been allowed in the same room with Kissinger.

But now, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio - one can’t get used to the notion - has withdrawn from the Reagan hubris of sole superpower, to a hybrid of Kissinger’s world order model; adding ‘zero sum’ insular multipolarity; meaning every man (nation) for himself!

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Every International Financial Centre (IFC) Should Repeal Every Forced Legalisation Motivated By Any EU/OECD Imitative

Every EU/OECD/FATF Initiative is Illegal

International Financial Centres (IFCs) should form an (OPEC style) organisation and propose a set of universal rules for financial centres

EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE REJECTS EU DICTAT ON BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP!

By Professor Gilbert Morris

I won’t say: “I told you so!”

But since it’s promulgation - here and elsewhere - I have rejected the EU’s beneficial ownership initiative as illegal, bogus, unconstitutional wherever adopted and counter to the rules on international agreements in the Vienna Convention on Treaties 1969.

That imitative, like 99% of the EU/OECD/FATF initiatives are:

1. One-sided fiats

2. Secured by threats and one-sided goalpost moving blackmail through Blacklists

3. Unconstitutional

4. Anathema to the multilateral system

5. Undermines basic common law privacy

6. Usurpative and biased

7. Lacked mutuality

International Financial Centres (IFC) - particularly in the Caribbean - will rejoice at this ruling like mistreated children scavenging for crumbs!

But in fact, they had NOTHING to do with it. In every jurisdiction over the decades, I’ve argued that their Attoney’s General should file cases. But, they were all prepared to capitulate as usual; none of them sufficiently schooled in their own constitutions as it relates to the geopolitics of financial centres, and none seemed committed to their sovereign capacity. Instead, all seemed ready with cowardly excuses as to why capitulating was better than standing on constitutional authority and trade rules, upon which - I’ve argued tirelessly - financial centres should be based.

I argued further for 23 years: every EU/OECD/FATF initiative is illegal.

That’s not because I wished to defend lazy capitulating IFCs. Rather, it’s because as citizens of our countries and the world, we must exercise care for the global financial system and its multilateral network by demanding adherence to defensible rules applied to all alike.

As I said a few months ago in an article for IFC Review Journal “every IFC should repeal every forced legalisation motivated by any EU/OECD imitative.”

Additionally and I repeat: IFCs should form an (OPEC style) organisation and propose a set of universal rules for financial centres.

This case is proof that the rule of law approach was right and has been right all along. A lawless sense of superiority on the one hand and cowardice on the other hand permitted it to run so long!

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