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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7890)12/22/2006 6:06:10 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 15987
 
Tim, implicit in your comments on it is the idea of MAKING everyone accept it.

Not really, or at least not in the way that you think. I'm not suggesting that nations be forced to accept the NUN, nor I am saying that you are suggesting that.

But the NUN can't have a market share like CDMA. You can't have an "Analog NUN" and a "GSM/TDMA NUN", and a "CDMA NUN". Getting the NUN, isn't like getting X people to use a CDMA phone or a tamagotchi. You need to get all or at least most countries to sign up for the NUN (and perhaps the NUN would impose on countries that don't sign on, once it become dominant).

Okay, let's suppose Croatia and Paraguay sign up. A common currency would be convenient.

I'm not sure it would be convenient for tow widely separated countries that aren't major trading partners. Also I wasn't aware that your NUN plan would call for it. Getting most of the world to agree to a common currency isn't going to be easy.

A lot of people think of it as a valuable part of their identity,

I think they would look at their own citizenship as a much larger part of their identity then any NUN. To the extent that the political structure represents a valuable part of their identity it would make getting an NUN more difficult not less.

Trade would probably start to increase among them.

Well if it includes a common currency and/or lowered trade barriers then it would increase trade, but it would seem simpler (although still difficult) to work on those separately.
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