Toward genuine global governance : critical reactions to "our global neighborhood"

Author(s)

• Harris, Errol E.
• Yunker, James A.

Bibliographic Information

Toward genuine global governance : critical reactions to "our global neighborhood"

edited by Errol E. Harris and James A. Yunker

Praeger, 1999

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 Appendices For Further Reading Index

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Details

• NCID: BA45861438
• ISBN:
  • 0275964175
• LCCN: 98047746
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 211 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JZ5566
  • DC21 : 327
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : International organization