There are many books that have sketched some of this potential. George Monbiot’s The Age of Consent is a stirring manifesto for a more egalitarian and participatory global future. A World Parliament, by Jo Leinen and Andreas Bummel, emphasizes the history of cosmopolitan thought and the UN Parliamentary Assembly proposal noted above. Balaji Srinivasan’s The Network State envisions virtual nationalities de-linked from geography. Hassan Damluji’s The Responsible Globalist makes the case that we should extend our traditional national allegiances to encompass a single “global nation.” Ian Bremmer’s The Power of Crisis examines pandemics, climate change, disruptive technologies, and how they are reshaping the global order.
The book Global Governance and International Cooperation discusses the UN Charter and the contemporary infrastructure for international cooperation, while Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century sets out a comprehensive blueprint for UN Charter and international system reform to manage our pressing and shared global risks. A pair of policy briefs from the German thinktank SEF (Development and Peace Foundation) and the Stimson Center in Washington DC, promotes a strategic “international rule of law” package to upgrade and revitalize the integrity and governance efficacy of the whole international system. The Governing our Planetary Emergency report by the Climate Governance Commission explores the boundaries of planetary risks and recommends both near and medium-term global governance reforms to address them. Finally, the edited volume Just Security in an Undergoverned World elaborates on the reform proposals introduced in the commission report of the Madeleine Albright-Ibrahim Gambari Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance.
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