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World domination

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The concept of world domination refers to the establishment and organization of a single world government. It is an idea that was manifested by empires, religions and other organizations throughout the history of humanity, as well as in the contemporary era through works of dystopic fiction.

Ideologies

Religious
Many proselytist religions such as Islam and Christianity are universalist, being responsible for converting as many people as possible to their religion, without restrictions of a national or ethnic nature. This spiritual domination is generally seen differently from that of a temporary domination, but certain sectors or currents of thought of such religions have as their goal that of a world theocracy.

Policy

Some advocates of modern political ideologies, such as republanism, democracy, communism, fascism, conservatism, social democracy, anarchism, liberalism, see their ideologies as the ideal of social organization, and actively encourage their implementation throughout the world. The period of the Cold War in particular is considered a time of intense ideological polarization throughout the world, with the supporters of the two rival fields expressing hope that their ideology would emerge triumphant over the other and become the predominant form of government throughout the world. Leaders and supporters of the blocs of the Soviet Union and the United States accused each other of having a goal of world domination, since each had different ideologies, the Soviet Union (communism, which is a doctrine that defends a social organization in which there is no private property, or the difference in classes, and in which the means of production are in the hands of the State, which would distribute goods equitably and according to the needs; it is a little like socialism) and the United States (the US or the US) (its doctrine is capitalism, which is an economic and social system based on the private property of the two nations, as well as the means of production, in which there was the constant importance of the capital of the means of the production, in which there were in the same way of the capital.

After the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, Francis Fukuyama predicted in his book The End of History and the last man that liberal democracy would become the most widespread form of government on the whole Earth. This period was called the New World Order.

Universal State concept according to Arnold Toynbee

In relatively old times, the scope of political control and military force was limited by transport technologies and knowledge of geography. The Roman Empire had goals of global domination, and could in fact have conquered the majority of the "known world"; (that is, the Mediterranean) through its history. The din