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BOOK REVIEWS Books and articles listed here have been reviewed by WFI staff Steering Committee members and Fellows. These works provide in-depth presentations and historical background on world federalism, other globalist thinking and current foreign policy issues. Responsibility to Protect + Read the rest of Ronald J. Glossop's Review Tilting at Windbags: The
Autobiography of a World Federalist + Book reviewed by Ronald J. Glossop "Harold Bidmead is a world federalist who pulls no punches. He is dissatisfied with all existing international organizations, including the U.N. and the European Union. What is needed is a federation, not a confederation of states, and that is true whether the context is a federation for the world or a federation for Europe. "Windbags" are those who don't appreciate the great difference between a union of individuals and a union of states." + Read the rest of Ronald J. Glossop's Review Rethinking World
Government: + Book reviewed by Ronald J. Glossop "This book is a must-read book for everyone interested in the idea of world government. Professor Yunker is very supportive of the idea that the global community needs a world government and very critical of what he calls "the dysfunctional myth" (p. 201) that "global governance" or "global civil society" can adequately deal with global problems."
+ Read the rest of Ronald J. Glossop's Review Healing the World + Book reviewed by Ronald J. Glossop "David Christensen writes this book as a follow-up to Senator Paul Simon's 2003 book HEALING AMERICA, something that Paul Simon was not able to do because of his death. As Sheila Simon says in the Foreword, "My father, Paul Simon, had great respect for Dave Christensen. Dad valued Dave's opinions enough to ask Dave for feedback on one of Dad's last books. Dave's book is based in part on Dad's work . . . ." + Read the rest of Ronald J. Glossop's Review In Our
Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis "Two recent books that have gotten national attention offer some hope that the majority religion in the United States, Christianity, may be finding a different political voice from the loud voice of the religious far right wing, with its knee-jerk hostility to global law and institutions." + Read the rest of Stephen L. Damours's Review
Diminished Democracy: From Membership to + Book reviewed by Tony Fleming "In her June 2004 American Prospect article ”The Narrowing of Civic Life”, Theda Skocpol, Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, suggests that the qualitative civic nature of many American membership groups is being weakened by a dependence on professional management and large-scale funders. She makes this claim despite the last thirty years’ apparent increase and influence of professionally run and foundation-funded advocacy groups’ success in promoting racial and gender equality, environmental protection and other progressive causes. And she’s right."
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of Tony Fleming's Review in Minerva
Revitalizing the United Nations + Monograph reviewed by Ronald J. Glossop "The argument is well-reasoned and thoroughly documented. If the UN is to be taken seriously as a policy-making body, the voting system in both the main bodies, the Security Council and the General Assembly, must be revised. In the Security Council veto power has been granted "in perpetuity" to five nations that happened in 1945 to be on the winning side of World War II, and two of them named in the UN Charter (the Republic of China and the Soviet Union) no longer even exist."
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Ideal for advanced students of world federalism, Design for a Better World offers a detailed guideline for the types of policies and organizations required for a successful world federation.
Revitalizing the United Nations Joe Schwartzberg focuses on the potential of weighted voting to transform the UN from a weak confederation into the ideal democratic world federation.
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