Multi-nationals have moved beyond the reach of national governmental authority, for if one nation enacts restrictive legislation, they can simply move their operations to a more compliant nation.

By uniting national governments and multi-nationals in specific issue-oriented voluntary organisations, based upon codified treaties, government and management can reach common agreement on difficult global issues.

Naturally, the question of Democracy is an issue but since multi-nationals have outgrown their parent nations,

Democracy has already been eroded to such an extent that the average voter in any country must devote more and more time to understanding the mechanisms of the global political-economic structure. Most have neither the time nor the access to sufficient information to make an informed decision.

As a result, politicians are more and more inclined to listen to the needs of those who support their election campaigns – the multi-nationals – than they are to those who elect them – the voters. Witness the current scandals in the United States and other “democratic” nations.

Just as the Chemical Weapons Convention was subject to much heated debate in most of the nations who have signed and ratified the treaty which formed the OPCW, so also would future treaties be subject to similar debate – and voters might have an opportunity to express their views as to how the global economy should work.

The OPCW regulations governing the chemical industry’s production and sale of dangerous chemicals can serve as a “blueprint” for future treaty-based organisations.