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global governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
By Dr. Augusto Lopez-Claros (et. al)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (February 27, 2020)
How can the world’s leading nations address the economic, health, and military threats more cooperatively? Augusto Lopez-Claros has a plan.
Your audience can feel the call-to-action of those in power who are tasked to grapple with the immediate crises that threaten humanity, wherever it is geographically located. All those who despair at the state of the world and its multiple problems will find in this book an ambitious but reasonable proposals that will give our globalized world the institutions of international governance necessary to resolve pressing problems including, but not limited to peace, security, and climate change.
In an interview Dr. Lopez-Claros can discuss:
· The urgent and non-trivial international problems currently confronted by humanity and why TheBulletin of Atomic Scientists earlier this year set their Humanity DoomsdayClock closer to midnight than at any point since the Cold War. It is now set at100 seconds to midnight, which, they remark, seems to constitute the “new normal.”
· There is the current global COVID19 pandemic, of course, with over twenty-four million global verified cases and what is approaching 800,000 deaths worldwide at the time of this writing. With devastating effects on the global economy and substantially setting back recent progress achieved in poverty alleviation… We are told that more global pandemics are on the horizon, linked in part to our other global ecological crises.
· Catastrophicbiodiversity loss (as we head into the planet’s Sixth Mass Extinction, this time human-caused), weapons proliferation and renewed arms races (including in relation to WMDs), global financial crisis management capacity which is weaker than it was during the 2008-2009 crisis, novel threats posed by AI and emerging technologies—including lethal autonomous weapons—enabling intensified cyberwarfare, the degeneration of the integrity of information ecosystems (so important for the proper functioning of healthy democracies), not to mention sobering problems of economic inequality, and the predicted “fourth industrial revolution,” with the resultant possible mass joblessness due to new waves of automation.
· The Proposals for global Governance for the 21st Century including proposals to reform the central institutions of the United Nations, including giving the reformed general Assembly powers to adopt binding legislation concerning peace and security and the global environment (i.e., for the first time creating a true global parliament), together with scientific advisory mechanisms and a strong voice for progressive global civil society. The dysfunctional and hamstrungSecurity Council would be replaced with an Executive Council with management functions, mechanisms to oversee staged and verified arms control, and an international Peace Force, supported by new, reliable funding mechanisms. It would similarly strengthen the international rule of law with binding jurisdiction for the International Court of Justice, complemented by theInternational Criminal Court, an anti-corruption court, and an international human rights tribunal.
· What is truly at stake if the world’s governments and institutions cannot find more agile ways to implement changes
· Much More…
We include the book’s press release for additional background information and I look forward to hearing your interview interests for Dr. Augusto Lopez-Claros and GlobalGovernance soon.
‘This volume makes a powerful call for action to transform the international institutions that govern human affairs. Grounded in rigorous historical exploration, it offers a vision for collective courage to change what we can and reimagine what we consider outmoded and inadequate. This is the blueprint for a new global architecture.’
——Maria Ivanova, Director of Center for Governance and Sustainability, University of Massachusetts Boston
‘Ourworld has long required an international force as an essential tool for conflict prevention, and yet such a force has always stumbled through inadequate means and half-hearted implementation. Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century provides a comprehensive set of proposals combining alternative dispute settlement mechanisms, phased disarmament, an International Peace Force adequate to the task, and paths to its implementation. As the risks of a major military confrontation increase, so too has the critical need to take these proposals seriously and work for their permanent implementation. There is no safe alternative.’
——Lt. Gen. (ret) the HonourableRoméo Dallaire
‘Lopez-Claros, Dahl, and Groff propose radical reforms to the charter that authorizes and rules the United Nations, and other methods of improving the current muddled state of global governance. Their case is persuasive. This book’s trenchant analysis of what ails the running of the globe should be read by policymakers everywhere, and certainly by those many citizens who concern themselves with fostering a better and more functional world. Change comes slowly, but this book is a prodding catalyst.’
——Robert I. Rotberg, Harvard university, author of On Governance
global governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
By Dr. Augusto Lopez-Claros
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (February 27, 2020)
Hardcover: 558pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (February 27, 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1108476961
ISBN-13: 978-1108476966
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