New book on Global Governance - available for free download

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From: "John Bunzl" <jbunzl(at)simpol.org>
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Subject: New book on Global Governance - available for free download
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:15:54 +0100


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	People-Centred Global Governance
- Making it Happen!

				by John M. Bunzl
Founder, International Simultaneous Policy Organisation


As global problems such as global warming, global poverty, pollution, terrorism and runaway corporate power increasingly outstrip the capacity of national and international governance institutions to solve them, the issue of global governance is rapidly moving up the international political agenda. In this book, Bunzl draws on the work of a number of leading evolutionary thinkers to show that both the process of globalisation itself, and the evolution of a binding system of global governance, are natural parts of human evolution. [more below]

Endorsements:


"A systemic and ingenious strategy for applying people power in all countries to encourage their politicians toward ‘win-win global solutions’.”

Hazel Henderson
Author, Building a Win-Win Worldand Planetary Citizenship

“Simultaneous Policy (SP) is an evolutionary imperative in a competitive world that now demands new forms of co-operation in order to address global issues that cannot be resolved by one nation alone. In this new book John Bunzl analyses some key aspects of governance and sets SP in the context of transformative evolutionary change in our economic and political systems. The book is a timely contribution to continuing debates about structures and processes of global governance, showing exactly why our current international institutions are not fit for purpose.”

David Lorimer
Editor, Network, the magazine of the Scientific & Medical Network

“In an age when our problems are global and national governance structures are weakened and inadequate, it is absolutely necessary to think about the shape of effective global governance. This cannot be simply national government "writ large" for that would also enlarge the problems and inefficiencies of national governance. It must be a holistic and evolutionary governance system, and to the articulation of the essential features of such a system John Bunzl's book makes a major contribution. Highly recommended reading for everyone concerned with our collective future on this small and largely mismanaged planet.”

Dr. Ervin Laszlo
Futurist, author and systems theorist. President of Club of Budapest

"John Bunzl convincingly demonstrates that if you want to contribute consciously to the successful advancement of the evolutionary process on this planet, you should support the Simultaneous Policy. The SP is a powerful and practical means of actualizing the next great step in evolution on earth - the formation of a cooperative and sustainable planetary civilization."

John Stewart
Author, Evolution’s Arrow – the direction of evolution and the future of humanity
 
 

"This publication presents a unique long term approach to governance and environmental issues.  It offers solutions based on the concept of unity in diversity.  As such it is bound to produce controversy and debate!"

Diana Schumacher
Former President, The Schumacher Society

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http://www.simpol.org/en/books/Books_FS.htm


Synopsis:

As global problems such as global warming, global poverty, pollution, terrorism and runaway corporate power increasingly outstrip the capacity of national and international governance institutions to solve them, the issue of global governance is rapidly moving up the international political agenda. In this book, Bunzl draws on the work of a number of leading evolutionary thinkers to show that both the process of globalisation itself, and the evolution of a binding system of global governance, are natural parts of human evolution.

The central dilemma of achieving a healthy form of global governance, Bunzl shows, is that its implementation must be by popular consent, and yet it must also be consented to and implemented by nation-states. For only nation-states have the authority and capacity to do so. But present inter-governmental efforts to solve global warming and other global problems are proving wholly inadequate and are showing the nation-state system to be incapable of such a move. The solution, Bunzl argues, is to devise a way for global citizens to use their votes in their respective national elections to drive their politicians and governments to implement global governance and to do so in a way that does not require nations to act against their own self-interest. Furthermore, he presents the Simultaneous Policy as one means by which this can be achieved, arguing it to be the world's first genuine form of global electoral politics.

Beyond this, if the evolution of global governance is a natural, albeit by no means assured, evolutionary phenomenon, Bunzl argues that any organisation purporting to become the world’s over-arching institution of global governance would likely have to display characteristics which are in substantial accord with the dynamics of evolutionary transformation. These dynamics have, after all, already been set out very clearly by the prominent American philosopher, Ken Wilber, in his “20 Tenets of holons and holarchies". The value of Wilber’s 20 Tenets is that they provide reasonably objective criteria against which to analyse and compare the various existing and emergent global governance initiatives (as well as existing institutions such as the United Nations) to assess their potential, or otherwise, for evolving to become the world's organisation of binding global governance.

Bunzl proceeds to analyse the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO), tenet by tenet, making a convincing argument as to its congruity with Wilber's Tenets and its potential for effecting global transformation at all levels of the human social holarchy towards a system of people-centred global governance. ISPO is also briefly viewed from Wilber's "all-quadrant, all-level (AQAL)" standpoint and ISPO's progress in the real world is also discussed, showing that it is already in the process of its own becoming. 

By analysing ISPO in this way, Bunzl lays down the gauntlet - a challenge - to all other would-be global governance initiatives to declare themselves in similar fashion. From such a debate, both those with a special interest in globalisation and governance and the wider public will be able to see which initiatives have the potential to succeed and thus merit our active involvement and support.

Contents:

                                                                                     

1.	Introduction                                                                                                               

-                    An invitation to all organisations purporting to offer a means of achieving global governance.                                                  
 

2.	Five key attributes of governance

-                    Key attributes A – E                                   
-                    The status of global governance today.           
-                    Governance in the age of globalisation        
-                    Pseudo-democracy                                   
-                    Global, simultaneous implementation as an integral attribute of governance.                                   
 

3.	The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) and the Simultaneous Policy (SP) campaign                            

-                    Specific arguments in favour of SP                  
-                    Arguments against SP and potential responses to them       
 

4.	Ken Wilber’s 20 Tenets: How SP and other initiatives shape up. (SP from the outside)                             

-                    The e-Parliament                      
-                    The World Future Council               
-                    Self-styled world parliament initiatives           
-                    The European Union                   
-                    Transnational corporations             
-                    The global justice movement                 
-                    Policy Structuration and Policy Flatland        
-                    The two-dimensional party manifesto     
 

5.	Vision-Logic: SP from the inside

6.	Cycles, Stages and Patterns in Transformative Evolutionary Change

7.	The Sheepdog Trial: a metaphor for how global governance initiatives and NGOs could co-operate for global transformation

8.	Letting go                            

                                                                        
Hardcopies can be obtained from ISPO on request at £10 per copy incl. postage to UK address. For other destinations or currencies, or for more information, please contact info(at)simpol.org

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