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The present study proposes a display of the forming and developing of the modern economic continental unions within the context of the latest economic evolutions.
Also, it presents an amazing parallel between the map of the new post-war world, as it was imagined by the visionary Maurice Gomberg and the latest evolutions regarding new world's order reconfiguration.
Keywords: continental union, world order, regional integrative organization, economic superpower, supra-state structure, Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
JEL Classification: E01, E20, Y90
Between 1941 and 1942, Maurice Gomberg proposed a reorganization of the world, at the end of World War 2.
This proposal regarding a division of the world after the end of the conflagration was obviously not put into practice as the suggestion was considered to be contrary to the interest of U.S.A. (see pact mania), U.R.S.S. (the revolution export) and being against the wishes of United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Netherlands and others to keep their colonial domains.
The project of Maurice Gomberg proposes in 1941 that U.S.A. in co-operation with its allies to decide over the complete destruction of the Axis powers ant it's satellites, for reasons of national safety and international morality ensurement (art. 1).
After the Axis powers would have been destroyed, U.R.S.S., U.S.A. and United Kingdom would assure the institution of a new world order that would lead to a permanent peace (pax Americana) and the freedom would be a felicitous result of the war led by the allies.
For reasons regarding historical matters, economic organizing and geographic (continental) neighborhood, the U.S.A. should have taken the deliberate role of world leader and establish the new democratic world order.
The project regarded the demilitarization of several countries, the submission of those countries to an international control and including them into political unions and international organizations.
All of the states would have to obey common economical (global) rules, but the U.S.A. would oversee the abidance of the political freedoms.
The plan would consist in:
- controlling at a global level the world's natural wealth for the purpose of assuring equal access and distribution for all the countries;
- controlling at a global level the bank institutions, the financial international organizations and the foreign investments;
- controlling at a federal, regional level the external relations...