Freakin' black helicopters.
These are international talking shops. WB and IMF are the ones with the greatest extra weight given to the US anyway.
UN... BTW, have you checked, what's the budget of the UN proper? The regular budget was under 2 bln dollars last year. That's right: about 1/25th of that of the New York City. Freakin' world government.
I guess I didn't make this clear. I didn't think people would actually think I meant some kind of world state with the combined resources of the hole world.
I mean, literally, that international bodies like these, where powerful countries currently do cut deals about very important things, could come to start producing deals that really do lay the groundwork for how international players can behave, in short, governing some aspects of their behavior.
When there's redistributive policy being argued between India, Argentina, Belgium and Japan, and when certain countries are gaining more power over what to do with other countries' money, it seems that the rules
governing the relations between states are changing, at a "international talking shop" which actually sets rules for what powers states have relative to each other.
Not that the UN is gonna have a combined army of EVERYONE, or a budget of 40% global GDP, but that countries might actually begin facing stronger and stronger restrictions on their actions based on the decisions of other countries.