Toward genuine global governance : critical reactions to "our global neighborhood"
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Toward genuine global governance : critical reactions to "our global neighborhood"
Praeger, 1999
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-202) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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
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