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. Below are links for the May 13, 2009 press release announcing the Authors’ Campaign, as well as the letter that is being sent, co-signed by the authors, to thousands and eventually tens of thousands of NGOs (nongovernmental organizations), soliciting their support for the online global referendum for a democratic world parliament.

MASTER LIST FOR AUTHORS’ CAMPAIGN

122 participants in the VWG Authors’
Campaign as of January 19, 2010

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, http://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, http://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

Dwight Gilbert Jones – The Humanist (ebook, smashwords.com/books/view/6769)

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

John O. Sutter - Sovereignty, Self-Government and Global Government

Toshio Suzuki - “International Party for the World Government” (article, http://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

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, http://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)

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