You know whats weird..? Russia has probably the least densely populated country in the world, with millions of acres of unused land and China is so overpopulated, they have to restrict parents to 2 kids or less.
These are neighboring countries!
...Yet the West is going to convince the world on globalism? How's that going to work?
Trade and technology.
Trade. We don't have to convince the world on
economic globalisation, which is slowly increasing trade across the world and incrementally, bit by bit, building economic zones that can co-operate. Economic integration gradually shifts towards rationalisation of trade barriers and national rules regarding products etc which leads to political integration.
Think of the African Union. They've come from a colonised continent through the havoc of post-colonial chaos and poverty to slowly forming various REC's (Regional Economic Communities) that overlap in the following diagram. But just look at this mess!
That's a mess, right? Different rules for different regions trading goods and services in different currencies. But think about what they've already achieved. South Africa and Nigeria and Ethiopia are economic powerhouses compared to what they were before. They want to protect that from being flooded by the overwhelming needs of the continent, so no one is going to suddenly develop a "United States of Africa" overnight! Rather than suddenly imposing a united Federation, the African Union are using economics to slowly unite the country, just as the old European Coal and Steel community became the EU!
This is going to take a lot of work! I doubt the above timetable will come through. I mean, an integrated African economy in 5 years? I doubt it! There will be new tribal conflicts, religious conflicts, and civil-wars as a result of the post-colonial chaos. There will be setbacks. Look at the EU and Brexit! Who would have imagined that? There's a setback! But on the other hand, who could have imagined the EU as it is today in September 1939?
Look how far Europe has come after
starting to tear itself a part just 79 years ago! Indeed, the
European Coal and Steel Community only started its unifying work in 1952, 66 years ago. Look at them today!
Globalisation can slowly accumulate towards
globalism. It's not inevitable, as Brexit and Catalan in Spain show. But it is possible. If the African Union continues to build their REC's into larger economic zones that gradually accumulate into a couple and then finally one economic zone, who knows what accompanying political integration may have occurred? Will the AU eventually be able to call on African Federal police or military in to solve a local heated religious or ethnic dispute? Will African States send troops to take better care of their neighbours and stop a neighbouring civil-war from developing simply because of
self-interest, and wanting to protect their own
trade and profits and security and infrastructure?
If Africa Unites, what about Asia? Asia is already a bunch of REC's like Africa.
Yet as the link above says, there are huge obstacles to an AU (Asian Union). As you indicated in your mention of China and Russia,
The first involves the question of will for unity in diversity, an idea that guides the EU. The region’s cultures, political regimes, economic systems and religious beliefs are more disparate than Europe. And
we can count on many governments resisting sufficient institutional proximity, which would necessarily result in some diluting of sovereignty, non-interference and territorial integrity.
The second hurdle
entails superpower interests in seeing such integration take place – or not – and in what shape. Asia remains under the influence of fiercely competing superpowers, buffeted by the
conflicting interests of China, the United States and Russia. What are the chances the region can achieve equal partnership rather than extending the predominance of major regional actors; of reaching partnership rather than absorption?
But if economic ties (and even internal cultural & religious shifts) do occur, and some form of Asian Union slowly develops,
Asia is half the world's population. Sure, Asia includes modern democracies like Japan and strong assertive neo-Feudal states like China. (I call it neo-Feudal because city "Lords" rule over the country peasants and little folk without the accountability of democracy. It's not truly Socialist or Democratic, with a weird hybrid of market and government designed to grow the city, so neo-Feudal it is). But with Christianity spreading through China's heartlands, who knows how long the current political regime can remain intact? Also, what would the impact of a war on the North Korean peninsula be? Would citizens be open to greater unity after such a catastrophe just as the EU was formed on the still-warm ashes of WW2?
We're selfish. We like wealth and pleasure and fun. Most of us hate war (except maybe in fun online games!
) I don't think the "World Vote Now" trailer above was realistic about a 10 or 15 year timeframe for a true United Nations Federal Parliament, but neither am I as pessimistic as predicting 1000 years.
Also, don't forget the internet. Here you and I are discussing deep ideas on opposite sides of the globe. Social media sparked the Arab Spring, and can allow all kinds of cultural shifts and attitude changes.
From
the link above again:
In December 2016, the EU and ASEAN celebrated
the 40th anniversary of their relationship. As a summary to their underlying beliefs,
they stated that “regional integration (is) the most effective way to foster stability, build prosperity and address global challenges.”
Each needs to promote this in its own setting to succeed.
Or,
as this "The Conversation" article states:
You might be surprised to learn, therefore, that some of the smartest international relations (IR) scholars in the world think that a world government or state is not only desirable on normative grounds, but it is also only a question of time before it happens. Admittedly, the time in question may be 100 or 200 years, but it’s a remarkable idea nonetheless.