One World Democracy

Author’s Description

One World Democracy presents the only viable long-term solution to today’s most urgent global problems: democratic world government and the rule of enforceable global law—a federation of all nations.

After centuries of warfare, Europe has accomplished just such a transformation by outlawing war between the member states of the European Union. This book shows how to do the same thing at the global level through implementing the only time-tested solution to violence and injustice—law and democratic government. Humanity has a sovereign right to govern itself and this book offers viable alternatives as to how we can create a new social contract for the entire planet.

• Front Matter

Part I Principles of Democratic Global Governance

• 1 The Peoples of the World Are Sovereign
• 2 The Case for Global Law
• 3 From World Citizenship to World Democracy
• 4 The Need for a Global Legislature
• 5 The War System and the Wisdom of Federation
• 6 How Do We Create a World Government?

Part II Global Problems that Need Global Solutions

• 7 Eliminating Nuclear Weapons
• 8 Global Sustainability through Global Law
• 9 World Democracy and the Global Energy Crisis
• 10 Overcoming Poverty through Global Government
• 11 The Need to Rethink Borders
• 12 The Critical Role of the US in Global Governance
• 13 How Do Corporations Influence the World?

Part III Global Activism for a New Epoch

• 14 The Inner Revolution for World Government
• 15 Focusing the Progressive Movement

Appendices

• A – Key Organizations and Websites in the Global Governance Movement
• B – Deck Chairs on the Titanic
• C – The World Federalist Movement: A Short History
  (With special reference to the role of California)
• Index