Authors’ Campaign
These authors have agreed to set aside their philosophical differences in order to encourage the holding of a global referendum on the general goal of a democratic world parliament.
For a broad overview of global governance, please check out the following enlightening books and articles.
MASTER LIST FOR AUTHORS’ CAMPAIGN
123 participants have joined the VWP Authors’ Campaign
in alphabetical order by surname
Abdullah Al-Ahsan – Ummah or Nation?: Identity Crisis in Contemporary Muslim Society
Eugenia Almand (first editor, with Glen T. Martin) – Emerging World Law: Key Documents and Decisions of the World Constituent Assemblies and Provisional World Parliament
Edy Korthals Altes – Spiritual Awakening: The Hidden Key to Peace and Security, Just and Sustainable Economics, A Responsible European Union
Daniele Archibugi – The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy
Mary-Wynne Ashford (with Guy Dauncey) – Enough Blood Shed: 101 Solutions to Violence, Terror and War
John Avery – “Against the Institution of War” (article, The Pari Dialogues, Vol. 1)
Joseph Preston Baratta – The Politics of World Federation, Vol. 1, United Nations, U.N. Reform, Atomic Control; Vol. 2, From World Federalism to Global Governance
Benjamin Barber – Fear’s Empire: War, Terrorism and Democracy in an Age of Interdependence
Frank Barnaby (editor) – The Gaia Peace Atlas
Byron Belitsos (with Jerry Tetalman) – One World Democracy: A Progressive Vision for Enforceable Global Law
James Bohman – Democracy Across Borders
Morrison Bonpasse– The Single Global Currency: Common Cents for the World
Gillian Brock – Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account
John Bunzl– The Simultaneous Policy: An Insider’s Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet
Michael P. Byron – Infinity’s Rainbow: The Politics of Energy, Climate and Globalization
David E. Christensen – Healing the World: A Primer About the World and How We Must Fix it for Our Children
Robin Cohen (with Steven Vertovec, editors) – Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context, and Practice
Brian Coughlan – “Why Replace the UN with a Directly Elected Parliament?” (article, Innovation and Creativity in a Complex World)
Guy Dauncey – Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change
Garry Davis – World Government, ready or not!
Troy Davis – Appel à une Démocratie Mondiale
Donatella della Porta – Another Europe. Conceptions and Practices of Democracy in the European Social Forums
Jack Donnelly – Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Nigel Dower – An Introduction to Global Citizenship
Anne Howland Ehrlich (with Paul R. Ehrlich) – The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
Paul R. Ehrlich (with Anne Howland Ehrlich) – The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
Katherine Ellison (with Gretchen Daily) – The New Economy of Nature: The Quest To Make Conservation Profitable
Giulio M. Gallarotti – The Power Curse: Influence and Illusion in World Politics
Johan Galtung – Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization
Ross Gelbspan – Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Have Fueled the Climate Crisis – and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster
Chahine Ghais – “Globalism and Localism: Changing our Political Understanding of Sovereignty and Democracy” (article, Palma, Vol. 7, No. 1)
Jamshid Gharajedaghi (with Russell L. Ackoff) – “Designing a Replacement for the UN” (article, Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself, Vol. 1)
Dhanjoo N. Ghista – Socio-Economic Democracy and the World Government: Collective Capitalism, Depovertization, Human Rights, Template for Sustainable Peace
Ronald J. Glossop – Confronting War: An Examination of Humanity’s Most Pressing Problem
Robert Goodland (with Dan Janzen) – Race to Save the Tropics: Ecology and Economics for a Sustainable Future
Carol C. Gould – Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights
Mike Gravel, U.S. Senator (1969-1981) and presidential candidate – Citizen Power: A Mandate for Change
Andrew Greig – Taming War: Culture and Technology for Peace
David Ray Griffin – (chapter in The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God: A Political, Economic, Religious Statement, entitled) “Global Empire or Global Democracy: The Present Choice”
Thomas N. Hale (co-author) – “A covenant to make global governance work” (article, OPEN DEMOCRACY, https://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision_reflections/covenant_3141.jsp)
Christopher Hamer – A Global Parliament: Principles of World Federation
Ilkka Hanski – The Shrinking World: Ecological Consequences of Habitat Loss
John Harte – The Green Fuse: An Ecological Odyssey
Mary Ellen Harte (with J. Harte) – Cool the Earth, Save the Economy: Solving the Climate Crisis is EASY (ebook, https://www.cooltheearth.us)
Patrick Hayden – Cosmopolitan Global Politics
Denis Hayes – The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair
David Held – Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus
Hazel Henderson (with Daisaku Ikeda) – Planetary Citizenship: Your Values, Beliefs and Actions Can Shape a Sustainable World
Peter Hesse – Vision Works: From Vision to Action
Thomas Homer-Dixon – The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
Andrew Hurrell – On Global Order: Power, Values and the Constitution of International Society
Fernando Iglesias – Globalizar la Democracia: Por un Parlamento Mundial (Globalizing Democracy: Appeal for a World Parliament)
Sohail Inayatullah – Understanding Sarkar: The Indian Episteme, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge
Margaret C. Jacob – Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe
Didier Jacobs – Global Democracy: The Struggle for Political and Civil Rights in the 21st Century
Mary Kaldor – Global Civil Society: An Answer to War
Michael Kessler – History of the Future
Demetrius Klitou – The Friends and Foes of Human Rights (ebook)
William Knoke – Bold New World: The Essential Road Map to the Twenty-First Century
Hans Koechler – Global Justice or Global Revenge?
Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (editor, with David Held) – Global Governance and Public Accountability
Ervin Laszlo, founder, Club of Budapest – The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads
Finn Laursen – “Federalist Theory and World Order” (article, Amsterdam: Institute for Global Policy Studies, Occasional Paper No. 4)
Mona Lee – Alien Child (a novel promoting global democratic governance)
Eric K. Leonard – The Onset of Global Governance: International Relations Theory and the International Criminal Court
Lucio Levi – Crisi dello Stato e governo del mondo (Crisis of the state and world government)
Gil Loescher – UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the 21st Century
Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (with James Bohman, editors) – Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant’s Cosmopolitan Ideal
Jake Lynch – Debates in Peace Journalism
Kate Macdonald – “Non-Electoral Accountability in Global Politics: Strengthening Democratic Control within the Global Garment Industry” (article, with Terry Macdonald, European Journal of International Law, vol. 17, no. 1)
Terry Macdonald – Global Stakeholder Democracy: Power and Representation Beyond Liberal States
Dada Maheshvarananda – After Capitalism: Prout’s Vision for a New World
Raffaele Marchetti – Global Democracy: For and Against
Glen T. Martin – Ascent to Freedom: Practical and Philosophical Foundations of Democratic World Law
Walter Mattli (with Ngaire Woods) – The Politics of Global Regulation
Steve McIntosh – Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution
Ozay Mehmet (with Errol Mendes) – Global Governance, Economy and Law: Waiting for Justice
Saul Mendlovitz (editor) – On the Creation of a Just World Order: Preferred Worlds for the 1990s
Michael M’Gonigle (editor, with Fred P. Gale) – Nature, Production, Power: Towards an Ecological Political Economy
George Monbiot – The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order
Antonio Mosconi – La fine delle egemonie: Unione europea e federalismo mondiale (The End of the Hegemonies: European Union and World Federalism)
James P. Muldoon Jr. – The Architecture of Global Governance: An Introduction to the Study of International Organizations
Robert Müller – The Birth of a Global Civilization: With Proposals for a New Political System for Planet Earth
Tim Murithi – “Rethinking the United Nations System: Prospects for a World Federation of Nations” (article, International Journal on World Peace)
Chandra Muzaffar – Global Ethic or Global Hegemony?: Reflections on Religion, Human Dignity and Civilisational Interaction
Patrizia Nanz – Europolis: Constitutional Patriotism Beyond the Nation State
Mike Nickerson – Life, Money & Illusion: Living on Earth as if we want to stay
Kai Nielsen – Globalization and Justice
Darren O’Byrne – The Dimensions of Global Citizenship: Political Identity Beyond the Nation-State
Ron Pagnucco (co-editor) – Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State
Heikki Patomäki (with Teivo Teivainen) – A Possible World: Democratic Transformation of Global Institutions
Fred Pearce – The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change (U.S. title, With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change)
Jan Nederveen Pieterse – Globalization and Culture: Global Mélange
Jonathon Porritt – Capitalism: As if the World Matters
Sudhir Chella Rajan – “Global Politics and Institutions: A ‘Utopistic’ View” (article, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42, No. 41)
Stuart Rees – Passion for Peace: Exercising Power Creatively
Joan Roughgarden – The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
Craig E. Runde – (Chapter 7 in Transcending Boundaries, entitled) “Beyond Nationalism”
Saskia Sassen – Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages
Joseph E. Schwartzberg – Revitalizing the United Nations: Reform through Weighted Voting
Modesto Seara-Vazquez – A New Charter for the United Nations
Jim Stark – Rescue Plan for Planet Earth: Democratic World Government through a Global Referendum
John Stewart – Evolution’s Arrow: The Direction of Evolution and the Future of Humanity
Keith Suter – Global Order and Global Disorder: Globalization and the Nation-State
Toshio Suzuki – “International Party for the World Government” (article, https://www.w-g.jp/wgi/library/articles-&-mails/party.htm)
Torbjörn Tännsjö – Global Democracy: The Case for a World Government
Peter J. Taylor – World City Network: A Global Urban Analysis
Teivo Teivainen (with Heikki Patomäki) – A Possible World: Democratic Transformation of Global Institutions
Jim Stark – Rescue Plan for Planet Earth: Democratic World Government through a Global Referendum Jerry Tetalman (with Byron Belitsos) – One World Democracy: A Progressive Vision for Enforceable Global Law
Oliver Tickell – Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse
John E. Trent (with Monika Rahman) – Modernizing the United Nations System: Civil Society’s Role in Moving from International Relations to Global Governance
Tu Weiming – Humanity and Self-Cultivation: Essays in Confucian Thought
James Tully – Public Philosophy in a New Key: Volume 1, Democracy and Civic Freedom, Volume 2, Imperialism and Civic Freedom
Kimon Valaskakis (with Peter S. Sindell) – The Conserver Society: A Workable Alternative for the Future
Frank Vibert – “The new cosmopolitanism” (article, OPEN DEMOCRACY, https://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-UN/article_1069.jsp)
Joshua Weiss – Which Way Forward?: Mediator Sequencing Strategies in Intractable Communal Conflicts
Thomas G. Weiss – What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It
Alexander Wendt – “Why a World State is Inevitable” (in the European Journal of International Relations)
Burns H. Weston – “Toward Nuclear Disarmament and Global Security: A Search for Alternatives
Josep Xercavins– “World Democratic Governance” (article, published by Secretariat of the UBUNTU Forum)
James A. Yunker – Political Globalization: A New Vision of Federal World Government
Thomas D. Zweifel – International Organizations and Democracy: Accountability, Politics, and Power