Critics fret that it would bypass national laws and subjugate the interest of governments to those of big business.
Using the weather as a weapon to subjugate the globe sounds like the modus operandi of a James Bond villain, but a senior climate scientist has expressed concern over the US intelligence services' apparent interest in geoengineering.
The harsh and paranoid rhetoric hurled from Beijing this week at Tibetans and their exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, is torn straight from the copybook that Lenin used to subjugate Turkestan.
Many educationalists believe that as more low-caste Indians attend university, ragging is used to subjugate them although "just as often it is lower castes trying to hurt upper castes", says Mr Agarwal.
His soldiers did not just subjugate the people they conquered.
The lock-out was his favourite negotiating tactic and he hired Pinkertons to subjugate his workers when they resisted his incessant demands for lower wages for longer hours.
In the following years even more families lost control of their land, as the Indonesian army divided and relocated communities in its attempt to subjugate the population.Today Amaro Silveiro dos Santos, president of the Ermera Farmers Union, a coffee co-operative, says the exploitation of people and land turned many in the area, his parents included, from independent landowners into pawns.
But embracing the outside world did not mean that Mr Morita enjoyed it.He had to subjugate his traditional sense of decorum; he had to learn not only to speak English but also to think English; he had to learn to say yes or no when the weight of a dozen generations of family tradition pressed him to be ambivalent.
In the German exhibition, the Nazi contribution to the debate on European unity is dismissed thus: "Hitler seeks to subjugate the European continent to the Third Reich in the name of 'New Europe'".
Yet they are barely able to subjugate the town of Tal Afar, outside which they are based.
And they are as sceptical as most Argentines that the circumstances of Mr Nisman's death and the president's role, if any, in covering up the truth about the bombing will ever be explained.Ms Fernández, who succeeded her husband in 2007, has tried to subjugate institutions that normally operate beyond presidential purview.
