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Recognizing Unrecognized Genius
Ivo Šlaus & Garry Jacobs
Today, there is an urgent need to reconnect disparate fields of thought in the social sciences - economics, politics, society and psychology. Unification of the social sciences and humanities can generate precious insights into the social process, such as the study of social evolution in literature ... Read More
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Counter-Aging in the Post-Industrial Society
Orio Giarini
The lengthening of life cycle is a unique revolutionary phenomenon that will have a profound impact on contemporary and future societies. It will affect social, political and economic institutions to a far greater and deeper measure than is commonly perceived ... Read More
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Seeding Intrinsic Values
Polly Higgins
Currently, our world is predominantly driven by laws that put profit first. So how do we shift to a new way of being that prioritises intrinsic values? How do we shift away from valuing something for its price-tag to valuing something in and of itself, regardless of whether or not it has a pecuniary value? ... Read More
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Crises and Opportunities
Ian Johnson & Garry Jacobs
Piecemeal fragmented strategies cannot address the pressing challenges facing humanity today. Economic theory has to be radically reinvented to squarely face the reality of rising unemployment, widening inequalities, growing ecological threats, frustrated social aspirations and unmet human needs. Monetary and fiscal policies are too crude ... Read More
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Double Factor Ten
F.J. Radermacher
The paper discusses the need and chances for considerable growth for a balanced world with ten billion people. This can be achieved in the context of sustainable development, if the right global governance system is implemented: Eco-social instead market-radical ... Read More
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Rio +20
Robert Horn
In June 2012, 50,000 people representing institutions of the earth (governments, NGOs, businesses) met to celebrate the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. They were limited by their assumptions in what they could deliver, but what they accomplished was often not reported by the mainstream media ...
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The Future of the Arctic
Francesco Stipo et al
The United States Association for the Club of Rome released its Report 2012 on the future of the Arctic and the role of the arctic region to provide energy and resources to guarantee global sustainability. The report is the result of the collaborative study of 11 American scientists, doctors and lawyers ... Read More
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Book review -2052: A Global Forecast for the next forty years
Michael Marien
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years is a report to the CoR commemorating the 40th anniversary of The Limits to Growth, written by one of the four original authors. This broad forecast is an informed guess tracing the big lines ... Read More
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Money, Debt, People & Planet
Jakob von Uexkull
Why we are not moving faster in tackling the global crises? We are told it is too expensive and not (yet) profitable enough to do so. The current debt crisis offers an opportunity to replace discredited debt-based money created by private banks in their interest with government-created debt-free money benefitting all, which can be used to fund a global emergency programme ... Read More
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The Power of Money
Garry Jacobs & Ivo Šlaus
Money is a remarkable human invention, a mental symbol, a social organization and a means for the application and transfer of social power for accomplishment. This article is the first in a series of articles exploring the origins, nature and functioning of money and its creative power by comparing money with two other pre-eminent social institutions – language and the Internet ... Read More
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On the Need for New Economic Foundations
Robert Hoffman
The body of macroeconomic theory known as the neoclassical-Keynesian synthesis that has dominated the practice of economics since the middle of the twentieth century is to be rejected on the grounds that it fails to address the major economic challenges of our times, that the assumptions upon which it is based are simplistic & unverifiable, & that the results do not follow from the assumptions ... Read More
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New and Appropriate Economics for the 21st Century
Michael Marien
“Economics” is an important construct, having to do with the production and distribution of wealth, human well-being and welfare. Despite disclaimers, it is inexorably tied to ideology and values—political ideas about the good society and how to promote it. Some economists describe their efforts as “scientific,” but this is merely a strategy to legitimate their work and their assumptions ... Read More
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Sovereignty and Nuclear Weapons
Winston P. Nagan & Garry
Jacobs
The current international security framework is based on an incomplete, anachronistic conception of sovereignty shaped largely by historical circumstance rather than principles of universal justice. Evolution of the global community over the past half century necessitates a reformulation of the concept to justly represent the rights of individual citizens and the global community as a whole ... Read More
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World Peace Through Law: Rethinking an Old Theory
James T. Ranney
The author sets about re-thinking the old concept of "World Peace Through Law", meaning replacing the use of international force with the global rule of law. He traces the history of the WPTL concept back to the British legal philosopher Jeremy Bentham, whose 1789 'Plan for an Universal and Perpetual Peace' proposed "a plan of general and permanent pacification for all Europe ... Read More
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Federalism and Global Governance
John Scales Avery
It is becoming increasingly clear that the concept of the absolutely sovereign nation-state is a dangerous anachronism in a world of thermonuclear weapons, instantaneous communication, and economic interdependence. Probably our best hope for the future lies in developing the United Nations into a World Federation. The strengthened United Nations should have a legislature with the power to make laws that are binding on individuals ... Read More
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Myth, Hiroshima and Fear: How We Overestimated the Usefulness of the Bomb
Ward Wilson
Recent evidence from World War II and the Cold War shows that nuclear weapons are far less useful as military and political tools than has been believed. Far from giving a madman the power to conquer the world, nuclear weapons are clumsy, dangerous technology with very few real uses - even if you have a monopoly ... Read More
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How Reliance on Nuclear Weapons Erodes and Distorts International Law and Global Order
John Burroughs
Deployment of nuclear forces as an international security mechanism for prevention of major war is far removed from the world envisaged by the United Nations Charter in which threat or use of force is the exception, not the rule. Reliance on nuclear weapons has also distorted the development of major instruments of international humanitarian law and international criminal law ... Read More
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Re-examining the 1996 ICJ Advisory Opinion: Concerning the Legality of Nuclear Weapons
Jasjit Singh
The primary objections raised against total elimination of nuclear weapons are built around a few arguments mostly of non-technical nature. Nuclear weapons and the strategies for their use have resulted in the establishment of a vicious circle within which the international community is trapped. The argument that the world will be unsafe without nuclear weapons is only meant to further the narrow self-interest of the nuclear weapon states and their allies ... Read More
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India's Disarmament Initiative 1988: Continuing Relevance, Valid Pointers for an NWFW
Manpreet Sethi
The run up to the NPT Review Conference in 2010 brought nuclear disarmament into focus. Transitory though this trend turned out to be, it nevertheless became a trigger for India to re-examine its own position on disarmament. In order to take a considered view on the subject ... Read More
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Nuclear Threats and Security
Garry Jacobs & Winston
Nagan
This article presents highlights and insights from the International Conference on "Nuclear Threats and Security" organized by the World Academy of Art and Science in association with the European Leadership Network and the Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy and sponsored by NATO at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik on September 14-16, 2012 ... Read More
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An Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone - Needed Now
Adele Buckley
Climate change and nuclear weapons, the two great security threats of the 21st century, are uniquely influential in the Arctic. Although the current risk of conflict is low, the global future is potentially turbulent. There is a 'new' Arctic because of meltdown induced by climate change. ... Read More
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