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Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He initiated this blog partly in celebration of his 80th birthday.
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Toward the Creation of a World Parliament: Strongly Recommended Reading
13 AprToward the Creation of a World Parliament: Strongly Recommended Reading
This is a brief promotional comment to call attention to the publication of a truly outstanding contribution to creative and restorative world order thinking. The book is entitled A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21stCenturyby Jo Leinen and Andreas Bummel, translated from German by Ray Cunningham, and published in 2018 in Berlin under the imprint of Democracy Without Borders. The book is currently available for purchase from Amazon.
I hope at a later time to do a serious review of this urgent plea for what might be called ‘cosmopolitan rationalism,’ the undergirding of a populist movement dedicated to overcoming the menace of the war system and predatory capitalism, placing a great emphasis on the potential of institutional innovation beyond the level of the state, above all, through the establishment of a world parliament with legislative authority. This would be a revolutionary step in the governance of humanity, and if it happens, is likely to be preceded in the evolutionary agenda of the authors by a global assembly endowed with recommendatory powers but lacking a mandate to make and implement binding decisions, and hence incapable of resolving conflicts or solving challenges of global scope.
The authors are both dedicated advocates of the institutionalization of governmental authority of regional and global scope. Leinen
has been a leading member of the European Parliament since 1999 as well as a German government official. Bummel is an internationally known and respected champion of world federalism incorporating democratic values. He is co-founder and director of the NGO, Democracy Without Borders.
What makes this book a great gift to humanity at a time of global emergency, is what I would call its ‘informed global humanism’ that sheds light on the long and distinguished history of proposals for global parliamentary authority. The institutional focus is greatly expanded and deepened by an erudite consideration of why global problems, as varied as food, water, environment, climate change, and economic justice cannot be solved without the presence and help of a world parliament capable of generating enforceable law. The authors bring to bear an astonishing range of knowledge to support their conclusions, drawing on the accumulated wisdom of philosophers, scientists, social scientists, moral authority figures, and statesmen to illuminate the question of how to meet the formidable challenges of the age. This enlargement of concerns lends weight to their commitment to clear the path of obstacles currently blocking the formation of a world parliament.
Indeed, while building their central case for a world parliament, Leinen and Bummel, have authored a book that tells you all you need to know to understand with some depth what is wrong with the world as it now functions, how it can best be fixed, and by whom. Their central political faith is rooted in an espousal of democratic values that they project as a positive global trend. Only here do I have some reservations, reflecting my reactions to the militarization of democracy in the United States and to the strong trends favoring autocracy in most leading countries. I do share with the authors a skepticism about the capacity of existing elites to promote the necessary reforms, as well as their sense that the time of a transnational revolution of the industrial proletariat has passed, with hopes now resting in the eruption of a transnational democratic and cosmopolitan democratic movement promoting progressive and humane forms of global governance.
I strongly recommend this book as a source of wisdom, thought, and the fashioning of a positive vision of the human future. Pasted below is the table of contents of A World Parliament to give a more concrete picture of the scope and grandeur of this extraordinary scholarly contribution with manifold activist implications for those of us who consider themselves citizen pilgrims.
Detailed Contents of A WORLD PARLIAMENT
Introduction ……………………………………………………………………. 1
PART I
The idea of a world parliament: its history and pioneers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
of a contract ………………………………………………………………… 8
Cosmopolitanism in ancient Greece 8—Cosmopolitan roots in India and China 9—
Vitoria’s ‘republic of the whole world’ 10—Conceptions of peace under ‘the sovereign
power of the state’ 12—The idea of the social contract in Hobbes and Locke 13—The
social contract and Wolff’s ‘V.lkerstaat’ 16—Kant’s cosmopolitan project 17
The American federal state and representative democracy 20—The historical roots of
parliamentarism 22—Cosmopolitanism in the French Revolution 24—Cloots’ ‘republic
of humanity’ 25—The end of cosmopolitanism 26
inter-parliamentary movement ………………………………………….. 27
Sartorius’ ‘peoples’ republic’ 27—Pecqueur’s concept of worldwide integration 28—
Pecqueur’s world federation and world parliament 29—Tennyson’s ‘Parliament of
Man’ 31—The long struggle to extend the right to vote 32—The birth of the inter-parliamentary
movement 33—The establishment of the IPU 34—The Hague Peace Conferences
as a catalyst 35—Internationalism in the USA 36—An initiative at the IPU 37—
Arguments emerging out of the German peace movement 39
The programme of the ‘Round Table’ group 42—The theory of sociocultural evolution
and a world federation 43—A world parliament on the Versailles agenda 44—The ‘German
Plan’ for the constitution of the League 46—Disappointment over the League of
Nations 46
the early days of the UN ………………………………………………….. 50
Federalism under pressure from fascism 50—The growth of world federalism 51—
Planning the post-war order 53—Fundamental criticism of the UN, and the shock of
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the atom bomb 54—Prominent support for a federal world order 55—Reves’ critique
of democracy, the nation state and sovereignty 56—Albert Einstein and Albert Camus
as advocates 57—The position of the Catholic Church 58—The British initiative of Nov.
1945 59—The issue of a Charter review conference 60—The foundation of the Council
of Europe 62—Sohn’s proposal for a parliamentary assembly at the UN 62—Models for
a world constitution 63—The Clark and Sohn model 64—Parliamentary cooperation
for a world federation 65
World federalism caught between the fronts in the Cold War 68—The federalist movement
and the founding of NATO 68—The declining popularity of world federalism
and a world parliament 69—The World Order Models Project 71—The growing importance
of NGOs 71—The idea of a ‘second chamber’ 73—The issue of weighted voting
in the UN General Assembly 74—Bertrand’s report 75— Perestroika and Gorbachev’s
initiative 76
revitalization of the debate ……………………………………………….. 79
The democratization wave 79—The revitalization of the debate 80—A UN parliamentary
assembly as a strategic concept 81—Support for a world parliament and a UNPA 82—
The report by the Commission on Global Governance 85—The report by the World
Commission on Culture and Development 87
Globalization and the nation state 88—The theory of ‘cosmopolitan democracy’ 90—
The Falk and Strauss essays 93—A community of the democracies? 94— H.ffe’s federal
world republic 95—The call for a WTO parliament and the role of the IPU 97—Other
initiatives towards a world parliament and a UNPA 98
UN Parliamentary Assembly ……………………………………………. 102
The ban on landmines, the International Criminal Court and the World Social
Forum 102—New contributions on the idea of a global parliament 103—The Lucknow
conferences 104—9/11 and global democracy 105—The report by the German Bundestag‘
s Enquete Commission 106—The report by the World Commission on the Social
Dimension of Globalization 107—The Ubuntu Forum campaign 108—The Cardoso
panel report 108—Growing support for a UNPA 111—The international campaign
for a UNPA 114—Calls for a UNPA since 2007 117—The third World Conference of
Speakers of Parliament 120—The European Parliament Resolution of 2011 121—The
de Zayas recommendations 123—Later developments 124—The report by the
Albright-Gambari Commission 126—The election of Trump and ongoing efforts 127
PART II
Governance and democracy in the 21st century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
commons ………………………………………………………………… 132
The era of humankind 132—Earth system boundaries 133—The problem of voluntarism
135—The ‘tragedy of the commons’ 137—The management of global common
goods 139—The problem of the generations 140—Global majority decision-making 141—
The tragedy of international law 143
market economy …………………………………………………………. 144
Overshoot and ecological footprint 144—The end of the Utopia of growth 145—The
challenge of global eco-social development 146—‘Political barriers’ as the main obstacle
to transformation 147—The process of state formation and the rise of the market economy
148—The ‘double movement’ between market fundamentalism and state interventionism
149—A global eco-social market economy 150
deregulation ……………………………………………………………… 153
The relevance of the ‘double movement’ and the emancipation question 153—The
financial crisis and the continuing systemic risk 154—State intervention to stabilize the
financial system 156—The financial system as a ‘priority global public good’ 157—The
anarchic system of international law 158—Liberalism, Laissez-faire and the question of
a world state 159—The global race to deregulate 160—The key role of tax havens and
anonymous shell companies 161—The hidden trillions 164—Global state formation
as the goal of the counter-movement 165
A world currency and a world central bank 167—The impact of national monetary policy
and currency wars 168—Recent proposals for a world reserve currency 169—The
fiscal race to the bottom 170—Uniform taxation of multinational corporations 172—
Rejection by the OECD 173—Global fiscal federalism and the restitution of fiscal sovereignty
174—Ideas for global taxes 175—The management, supervision and expenditure
of global tax revenues 176
interdependence …………………………………………………………. 179
‘Trans-sovereign problems’ 179—The concept of interdependence 180—Transgovernmental
networks and the merging of domestic and foreign policy 181—The evolutionary
phases of the international order 183—Sovereignty and the era of ‘implosion’ 184
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evolution …………………………………………………………………. 187
The potential for worldwide collapse 187—The Genome as part of the heritage of humankind
188—Reprogenetics 189—Transhumanism and artificial intelligence 190—
Autonomous weapons systems 191—Bioterrorism, nanobots and new pathogens 193—
The need for regulation under global law 194
Nulcear war as ‘the end of all things’ 196—The danger of nuclear war 197—The risk of
nuclear accidents 198—The unfulfilled commitment to general and complete disarmament
200—The architecture of nuclear disarmament 202—The link between nuclear
and conventional disarmament 204—The McCloy-Zorin Accords 206—The unrealized
peace concept of the UN Charter, and UN armed forces 207—The four pillars of a
world peace order 209—The role of a World Parliament 210
The ‘war on terror’ as an end in itself 212—The covert warfare of the USA 212—The
consequences of US foreign policy and the ‘war against terror’ 213—Human rights violations
and the USA’s drone warfare 215—The roots of transnational terrorism and
the relevance of a World Parliament 216—The global surveillance system and universal
disenfranchisement 219—Global data protection legislation 221
post-American era ………………………………………………………. 223
The need for world police law and a supranational police authority 223—The failure of
classical sanctions 224—A supranational police to support the ICC 225—Extending the
prosecuting powers of the ICC 227—Strengthening international criminal prosecution
and a World Parliament 229—Interpol and accountability 231—A World Parliament as
an element of world police law 232—The role and significance of the USA 235
The extent of worldwide hunger and the right to adequate nutrition 238—Population
growth and food production 240—The fragility of global food supply 242—Dependence
on oil and phosphates 244—Hunger as a problem of political economy 244—
The relevance of democracy and the international system 245—Agricultural subsidies,
the WTO and food security 247—Commodity markets and financial speculation 248—
Food security as a global public good and the failure of the G20 249—The FAO, a World
Food Board and global food reserves 250—Free trade, food security and a world peace
order 252—Democratising global food policy and a World Parliament 253
The state of drinking water supply 256—Water security as a global concern 257—The
democratic deficit in water governance and a World Parliament 259
Poverty as a key issue 262—Extreme poverty and the right to an adequate standard of
living 262—The need for a new approach to international development 265—
Economic growth is not enough 266—Social security as the foundation of a planetary
social contract 267—A global basic income 268—Universal access to the global commons
270—The dream of a life free from economic compulsion 270
The emergence of global class conflicts and the role of the middle class 272—The
global precariat 274—The concept of the Multitude 275—The super rich and global
power structures 277—The transnational capitalist class 279—A transnational state
apparatus 280—The interconnections between transnational corporations 281—The
need for a global antitrust authority 282—Global inequality and instability 284—
Inequality as the cause of the financial crisis 285—The growth of capital investments
and a global tax on capital 286—The need for global public policy instruments and a
World Parliament 287—A new global class compromise 289
federalism ………………………………………………………………… 290
The global elite and the question of a world government 290—The spectre of a
global Leviathan 292—Hierarchical order and complexity 294—Different types of
hierarchies 294—The principle of subsidiarity 295—The fragmentation of global governance
and international law 296—Coherent world law and a World Parliament 298—
The bewildering world order and the ‘age of entropy’ 298—The entropic decline of
world civilization? 300—World federalism as a means of reducing complexity 301—A
world state as a taboo topic 302—The teetering paradigm of intergovernmentalism 303—
The standard reactionary arguments 305
deficit …………………………………………………………………….. 307
The waves of democratization 307—Economic development and democracy 309—The
post-industrial transformation in values 310—Democracy as a universal value 312—
The right to democracy 313—The undermining of democracy by intergovernmentalism
315—The influence of transnational corporations 317—The example of the Codex
Commission 317—Fragmentation as a problem of democracy 319—The dilemma of
scale 320—The concept of a chain of legitimation 320—Output legitimation 321—
Accountability to the world’s citizens 323—Equality and representation in international
law and world law 324—The third democratic transformation 326—
International parliamentary institutions 328
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enlightenment …………………………………………………………… 330
War and socio-political evolution 331—The decline of violence 333—The development
of reason, empathy, and morality 333—The origin of morality in group selection 336—
In-group morality and humanity’s crisis of adolescence 337—Sociogenesis and psychogenesis
340—The widening circle of empathy 340—The transition to an integral consciousness
343—Group narcissm and the Promethean gap 345—The problem of cultural
lag 347—Global identity and the Other 349—The ‘Overview Effect’ and a planetary
worldview 351—Identity, demos, and state formation 353—The progressive
attitude of the world population 357—Global history and world citizenship education
359—‘Big History’ as a modern creation story 360—The continuation of the project
of modernity 362—The new global Enlightenment 365
PART III
Shaping the future: the design and realization of world democracy . . . . 367
The example of the European Parliament 369—The proposal for a UNPA 370—The
extension of powers and responsibilities 371—Growing democratic challenges 374—
The allocation of seats 376
International law and world law compared 379—A bicameral world legislature 381—
A world constitutional court 382
The structural conditions for institutional change 384—A cosmopolitan movement
386—The role of NGOs 388—A UNPA as a catalyst for change 389—Four
factors 391—The stealthy revolution 391—The revolution from below 392—The revolution
from above 393—The trigger 394—Anticipating and averting the horror 395—
Climate-induced events 396—A democratic China 397—In the beginning 399
Index …………………………………………………………………………. 401
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