Skip to main content
Hello Visitor!     Log In
Share |

Books

Taming Global Governance Idea Chaos: A “Frontier Frame” for Recent Books

How important is global governance? Is there a growing need? If so, as many argue, is progress being made relative to the need? Who is saying what? Are there important trends in thinking? And patterns  ... Read more

Law in Transition Biblioessay: Globalization, Human Rights, Environment, Technology

The clearing house should encourage thinking ahead so that law and governance can attempt to accommodate the numerous challenges of globalization, many new technologies, and the emerging ....Read more

Law in Transition Biblioessay: Globalization, Human Rights, Environment, Technology

Michael Marien

As globalization continues, many transformations in international and domestic laws are underway or called for. There are too many laws and too few, too much law that is inadequate or obsolete, and too much law-breaking. This biblioessay covers some 100 recent books, nearly all recently published, arranged in four categories ... Read More

Taming Global Governance Idea Chaos: A "Frontier Frame" for Recent Books

Michael Marien

Global governance is clearly taking shape in complex and chaotic ways, with widespread dissatisfaction of present arrangements and numerous proposals for betterment-all at a time when many national governments are also being questioned, arguably due, at least in part, to deficiencies in global governance and international accords ... Read More

Taming global governance Idea Chaos
- Michael Marien

Law in Transition
- Michael Marien

"Towards green growth" - OECD report
- Michael Marien

"The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge" by Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing
- Michael Marien

"The new economics: a bigger picture" by David Boyle and Andrew Simms
- Michael Marien

"Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat" by Andrew Brown
- Michael Marien

"The Changing Wealth of Nations: Lessons for Sustainable Development" - The World Bank
- Michael Marien

"Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis" by Al Gore
- Michael Marien

For more book reviews, visit http://www.globalforesightbooks.org

Don't Bank on the Bomb: A Global Report on the Financing of Nuclear Weapons Producers. by Jan Willem van Gelder, Petra Spaargaren, and Tim Wright. Foreword by Desmond Tutu. International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, March 2012

Aux Origines de l’Occident: Machines, Bourgeoisie et Capitalism
- Augusto Forti

Information theory and Evolution
- John Avery

The Real Wealth of Nations
- Riane Eisler

Gentle action
- David Peat

World Federalist Manifesto
- Francesco Stipo

Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy Through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity. Report to the Club of Rome
- Ernst von Weizsäcker et al.