Toward Genuine Global Governance

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Toward Genuine Global Governance Critical Reactions to "Our Global Neighborhood"

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Errol E. Harris, James A. Yunker

Book Code: C6417

ISBN: 0-275-96417-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96417-7

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224 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/1999

List Price: $106.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: Nine well-known authors associated with the world federalist movement critique the 1995 Report of the Commission on Global Governance entitled Our Global Neighborhood. Although the contributors manifest a variety of viewpoints, styles, and approaches, they are unanimous in condemning the Report as insufficiently imaginative and visionary. Despite repeated calls in the Commission Report for a radically new way of thinking, the substance of the Report mindlessly rubber-stamps the legitimacy of the sovereign nation-state system of today, by means of summarily and peremptorily dismissing even the possibility of a supernational government qualitatively beyond the United Nations. According to the contributors, the concept of genuine world government is sufficiently advanced, and the circumstances of the present day are conducive, so that this concept is deserving of the most careful and serious attention by the general public and the political leadership. Despite their unconventional conclusions, these essays are lucid, judicious, and commanding.

Table of Contents:

Preface by James A. Yunker
A Planetary Paradigm for Global Government by Glen T. Martin
Liberalism at the Global Level by Richard Falk
Governance--An Opportunity? by John C. de V. Roberts
Global Governance Requires Global Government by Ronald J. Glossop
Global Government: Objections Considered by David Ray Griffin
Global Governance or World Government? by Errol E. Harris
A Critique of "Our Global Neighborhood" by Philip Isely
Reactions of an Ordinary World Citizen to "Our Global Neighborhood" by Jean-Marie Breton
A Pragmatic Route to Genuine Global Governance by James A. Yunker
Summary and Conclusion by Errol E. Harris
Appendices
For Further Reading
Index

LC Card Number: 98-47746

LCC Class: JZ5566

Dewey Class: 327


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