DEVIL'S ADVOCATE: Counterargument to the below, as I think it might be sketched:
1. successful republican democracies coordinate around a few key components: a liberal rights-conception, the rule of law, and the protection of minorities. Social network theory tells us that as groups interact more, they tend to coordinate on certain behaviors--some of this can be seen in the rise of the free-trade principle. Consequently, one might think that an international super-state would be more like the government in one of those individual countries, rather than the sort of leviathan state critics conceptualize.
2. one might think, plausibly, that even if an international apparatus is bound to failure in at least some, or maybe most, of its ventures, it would still be capable of doing a lot of good (or at least some good), and that's not a benefit that should be lightly dismissed.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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