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Now Published - GCPS Forum on "Worlds in Transition"

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Global Change Peace and Security

Special Forum on Worlds in Transition

 A special forum of essays on Worlds in Transition was published in the February issue of 

 

Global Change, Peace & Security

Volume 24, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 1-52

Contributors include:

  • Thomas G. Weiss - Shocking the stressed planet into better governance
  • Kees van der Pijl - The limits of discipline, or how to make sense of the state of the world
  • Richard Devetak - Histories and crises: modern, global, natural and social
  • Craig N. Murphy - Incomplete holoreflexivity or powerful vested interests?
  • Joseph Camilleri - Governance in an age of transition: an evolutionary perspective; and Interpreting change: evolution versus crisis and transformation
  • Jim Falk - Some recent reflections on worlds in transition; and A brief afterthought.
 

UNDP Head, Helen Clark, launches 'Worlds in Transition' in Sydney, Australia

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ShareThe Hon Helen Clark - Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Former Prime Minister of New Zealand - addressed a crowded room of distinguished guests at her launch of Worlds in Transition: Evolving Governance Across a Stressed Planet,

   

Prof Jim Falk, the Hon Helen Clark, and Prof Joseph Camilleri at the launch

 on Friday 12 February 2010, at 2.30 pm.  She gave a strongly supportive analysis of this "quite remarkable book".  Amongst those present were senior consular representatives of Italy, Samoa, and Iraq as well as ex-ambassadors, and researchers from across the NSW universities.  See also videos of launch.

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'Worlds in Transition' presented to Indonesia's Vice-President

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Copies of 'Worlds in Transition' acquired by the Association of Pacific Rim Universities World Institute (AWI) were presented in Indonesia to the Indonesian Vice-President and 50 prominent participants in its international conference on climate change in Jakarta, Indonesia, over 15-19 March

Indonesian Vice-President Boediono receives a copy of "Worlds in Transition" from Jim Falk, co-author, in the Vice-Presidential palace on 18 March 2010.

  

 Walter North (USAID), Mohammed Islam (Asian Development Bank), and Mariq Ahmad (World Bank) with their copies of "Worlds in Transition",  between AWI Managing Director Richard Drobnick and Jatna Supriatna (Conference Co-Chair).

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Review Comments

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"A fascinating new book" Helen Clark, Head of the United Nations Development Program, speaking at Oxford University, UK.

 

''Camilleri and Falk have to be truly admired for asking the big questions in politics and in global governance. When I stated earlier that this was not a book to be taken lightly, I was complimenting the authors on trying to seriously understand how we got to where we are today. When so many focus on the crisis of multilaterialism, it is refreshing to read a grounded, thoughtful and engaging account of how global governance fits into the history of humankind and our species ability to save ourselves from ourselves.'' Susan Park, Australian Journal of International Affairs 

 

''This study. . . will truly be a text for its times. . . an impressively ambitious piece of historical analysis for an age in which human governance faces both unprecedented challenges and demands and is worthy of engagement by policy-makers and scholars alike.'' Benjamin Zala, International Affairs 

 

''This book is timely, expertly researched, successfully executed and will prove prescient regarding our current state of transition. It is my sincere hope that many different types of readers find it and assimilate its varied teaching points. If so, Worlds in Transition will add to our cultural "reflexivity", and inform the refinement of global governance policies and priorities for our stressed planet in the coming years.'' Timothy J. Hoellein, Journal of Intercultural Studies

 

 ''This book is a masterpiece of analysis and informed prediction. It is jammed packed with information on the new frontiers of law in our present globalised environment.'' The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG, Former Judge of the High Court of Australia

 

''Worlds in Transition is an extraordinary book, the most comprehensive and profound assessment of the overall challenge of global governance yet available. Its ambitious scope extends beyond normal social science to consider the nature and limits of human adaptive capacities strained to the breaking point by the interplay of climate change, globalization, and a fragmented world order.'' Richard Falk, University of California, Santa Barbara, US 

 

''At a time of overspecialization in the knowledge industry, it is energizing to read a book that navigates the social, humanistic, and natural sciences. Do Camilleri and Falk succeed in this bold venture? Yes, profoundly! Their tour d'horizon is a romantic journey, a love affair with traversing different branches of learning. Gracefully composed, Worlds in Transition also offers insights into the perils of our era and issues a clarion call for a system of multi-tiered governance to address them.'' James H. Mittelman, American University, US

 

Successful Melbourne Launch of 'Worlds in Transition'

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the Hon Michael Kirby

Worlds in Transition was  launched for Melbourne, Australia, before a crowded room of some 240 invited guests on Tuesday 13 April 2010 by former High Court Judge, the Hon Michael Kirby AC CGM (see above), and leading Australian historian, Professor Stuart Macintyre in the Asia Centre at the University of Melbourne.  For a brief synopsis of the central arguments in the book click here.  For the speeches see Videos from the Melbourne and Sydney launches,  and for photos see the Photo Gallery.

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