Alliansfriheten.se har fått tillstånd av Hans Blix att publicera föredraget:
In 1958 Grenville Clark and Louis Sohn published their famous ‘World Peace through World Law’. They proposed a drastic revision of the UN Charter giving the General Assembly some legislative power; establishing a world police force; making the Security Council more representative of the membership and transforming it into an Executive Council. They also provided for general and complete disarmament and judicial settlement of disputes.
In discussing the considerable practical hurdles to such a plan Mr. Clark took the optimistic view (in the 1960 edition) that the process of general and complete disarmament would be well on its way in 1975.
Sadly, in 1975 the world was far from general disarmament. At the peak of the Cold War there were between 50 and 60 thousand nuclear warheads and the world war far from UN reform.
Although I must conclude that the vision of Clark and Sohn was wildly optimistic I find their view persuasive that in seeking world peace we might seek inspiration in how we have come to attain peace in the domestic sphere of nations: through legislatures, executive and judicial organs, the disarming of the individual citizens, etc.