Designing and Managing the Future of the State IV The international system in the next century will find not only that it must continue to live with the state, but that one of its systemic objectives will continue to be the improvement of the functions of the state in specific decision sectors. In this respect, the model (if not the degree of achievement) of the modern human rights programmes, which insists on national implementation and only provides monitoring and supervision of the actions of national agencies, may be worthy of emulation. At the same time, international policy should continue to characterize certain types of national developments as international pathologies which should be identified and remedied at very early stages. Extreme nationalism, propaganda and war-mongering, state-initiated or tolerated diffusion of racism and discrimination have all been characterized as internationally unlawful. Moral issues aside, these practices should be subject to an international programme of monitoring the state because, viewed from the perspective of the future of the state, in international politics and law, they are matters of urgent international security.17 17 See, in this regard, Snyder, Hermann and Lasswell, `A Global Monitoring System: Appraising the Effects of Government on Human Dignity', 20 International Studies Quarterly (1976) 221.
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