by Jason Morgan
Brandon Christensen’s bold ideas for a transformation of the world order provide excellent impetus for a rethinking of moribund global paradigms. And yet, Christensen’s American Proposal, while detailed and thoughtful, does not go far enough. In light of the erasure of Native Americans from the liberalism that underpins the American political order, as well as from the Philadelphia iteration of that order itself and its ensuing American empire, I propose a Native American Proposal, which entails the overturning of some five centuries of Euro-American imperialism and colonialism worldwide. In place of the morally bankrupt world system I envision a coexistence of civilizations along the lines of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a Native American grouping rooted in mediation and reconciliation and dedicated to the production and maintenance of peace among would-be antagonists. A loose, peace-oriented grouping such as one inspired by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy would also allow for multiple similar confederacies, such as BRICS, to flourish, further dismantling the inherently racialist liberal world order.
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Jason Morgan is Associate Professor, Reitaku University, Kashiwa, Japan. Check out his ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2969-3010. Send him mail: jmorgan@reitaku-u.ac.jp.
Isonomia Quarterly 