James A. Yunker

Beyond Global Governance

Prospects for Global Government

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Produktbeschreibung

In these essays, James A. Yunker issues a powerful challenge to conventional thinking on world government. Based on an innovative plan for a limited world government tentatively designated the "Federal Union of Democratic Nations," this book envisions a legitimate world government a quantum leap beyond the United Nations of today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 373g
• ISBN-13: 9780761863595
• ISBN-10: 0761863591
• Artikelnr.: 40541335

Autorenporträt

James A. Yunker is a professor of Economics at Western Illinois University, where his teaching responsibilities include microeconomic theory, mathematical economics, and econometrics. Yunker has published numerous articles in professional journals and several books, including Political Globalization: A New Vision of Federal World Government (University Press of America, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

, Preface
,
, Abstracts and Acknowledgements
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,
1
, Beyond Global Governance: Prospects for Global Government
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, Governance without Government
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, A New Opportunity?
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, "Traditional" World Government Proposals
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, A New Approach to World Government
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, The Chicken or the Egg?
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, A Stable and Benign "New World Order"?
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,
2
, Recent Consideration of World Government in the IR Literature: A Critical
Appraisal
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, Introduction
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, IR Theory and World Government
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, The Inevitability Proposition
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, Between the U.N. and the Omnipotent World State
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, Conclusion
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,
,
3
, Evolutionary World Government
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, Introduction
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, A Brief History of World Government
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, A Brief History of Socialism
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, Recent Developments in World Federalist Thought
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, Limited versus Unlimited World Government
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, Prospects for Global Economic Equality
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, The Case for (Limited) Federal World Government
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4
, From National Sovereignty to Global Government: Is There a Plausible
Transition Path?
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, A Pragmatic Plan toward World Government
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, What Can World Federalists Do?
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, Conclusion
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5
, Should the United States Champion World Government?
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, The Omnipotent World State
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, Limited World Government
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, A Global Marshall Plan
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, Hegemony versus Guidance
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, Index
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, About the Author
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