[GJM] New book on Global Governance - available for free download

[robert searle]

Dear All,

       As some of you may know John Bunzl wrote a book
on monetary reform which was co-authored with
Robertson.

I hope the relevant links work here.

R. Searle.



--- John Bunzl <jbunzl at simpol.org> wrote:

>  [Apologies for cross-posting or in case this email
> is unwelcome. If so, please notify us] 
> 
> 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 World and 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
> 
> 
> 
> Download for free from:
> 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.
> 
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