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Reinventing the United Nations
By Tad Daley and David Lionel

Published in the September 2006 edition of the Foreign Service Journal

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Political Democracy as a Check on Economic Capitalism
By Ronald J. Glossop

This article was published in the December 2005 issue of The Federalist

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Needed: A United Nations
Administrative Academy
By Joseph E. Schwartzberg

This is an updated paper originally presented at a panel
on “United Nations Responses to Terrorism and Security” at the
Fifteenth annual meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, Cascais, Portugal, June 23, 2002

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America the Almighty: The Maverick Hyperpower
by Steve Damours

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One World Democracy
by Jerry Tetalman and Byron Belitson

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The Politics of World Federalism
by Joseph Baratta

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Einstein, Russell and the Bomb: The 50th Anniversary
by Lawrence S. Wittner

This piece appeared on July 5, 2005 on the History News Network.
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Getting It Wrong on Security Council Reform
by Joseph Schwartzberg

This was presented at the Annual Meeting of ACUNS in Ottawa, Canada, held June 16-18, 2005.
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The 'Me Too' Club
by Tad Daley

This piece appeared on May 30, 2005, on www.commondreams.org.
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Does the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Have a Future?
by Lawrence S. Wittner

This article was published on March 21, 2005 on the History News Network.
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Minerva, vol 28

Minerva  is a  ten-year-old twice-yearly journal, now supported by the World Federalist Institute of Citizens for Global Solutions.  It is named in honor of one of the four women signers of the United Nations Charter, Minerva Bernardino, who helped found the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee

You can download Minerva volume 28 in full (PDF, 692k), or download each part separately below (Minerval opens in PDF format, slow connections should expect longer download time).

This issue includes:

Part 1: (295k) Tempered Confidence by Thesil Morlan
  Speaking Law to Power by Joan Fitzpatrick
   
Part 2: (130k) Beyond the Hague by Richard Dicker & Elise Keppler
  PROFILE: Gloria Atiba-Davies at the ICC by Diana Belletieri
  Juvenile Justice and Child Soldiering by Christina Clark
   
Part 3: (255k)
California’s CEDAW Bill, The New Massachusetts Human Rights Bill and Related Efforts
  NOTES: Planet Renovation
   
Part 4: (307k) The Globalization of Pollution by Marquita K. Hil
  Equitable and Reasonable Use of Water Within the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin by Elizabeth Burleson
  RESOURCES
  LETTERS: Vahida Nainar, Robert Haines

Minerva includes attributed opinions & information that may not represent official positions of Citizens for Global Solutions.


Minerva, vol 29

This is the second edition of Minerva to be posted on the Citizens for Global Solutions website under the auspices of the World Federalist Institute.  (See Minerva vol. 28 for a brief description.)

Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee

You can download Minerva volume 29 in full (PDF, 418k), or download each part separately below (Minerva opens in PDF format, slow connections should expect longer download time).

Part 1: (237k) Armory for Human Security by Thesil Morlan
Renewing the Commitment to the Rule of Law & Human Rights by Mary Robinson
Terrorism as an International Crime by Leila Nadya Sadat
NOTES: Borders and People at Risk
Part 2: (144k) INTERVIEW with Antonio Guterres,UN Commissioner for Refugees, by Kathleen Newland & Kirin Kalia
Trafficking, Smuggling, and Human Rights,by Jacqueline Bhabha
Dilemmas of Contemporary Trafficking Work, by Alice Miller
The UN Trafficking Protocol and CEDAW: At Legal Odds, By Phyllis Coontz & Catherine Griebel
UPDATES: CEDAW
Part 3: (207k) Millennium Development Goals and CEDAW, by Caren Grown
A New Way of Doing Business (Post-Summit), by Mary Robinson
NOTES: Some Other Reactions to UN Reform Summit
Post-Summit Reaction: The Good News, by Barbara Crossette
NOTES: Home Improvement/Planet Renovation
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Minerva, vol 30

This is the third edition of Minerva to be posted on the Citizens for Global Solutions website under the auspices of the World Federalist Institute.  (See Minerva vol. 28 for a brief description.)

Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee

You can download Minerva volume 30 in full (PDF, 588k), or download each part separately below (Minerva opens in PDF format, and slow connections should expect longer download time).

Part 1: (465k) Congruence of Civilizations by Thesil Morlan
Passive Acceptance of Others' Peculiarities Not Enough! by Kofi Annan
An Unavoidable Clash of Civilizations? by Ghassan Tueni
Critical Cosmopolitans: New Sovereignty/New Enlightenment by Madhavi Sunder
NOTES: Complementarity
When Culture Overrides the Law, by Kathambi Kinotri
NOTES: Cosmopolitan Education, by Amartya Sen
Substantive Citizenship: Feminist Politics in a Fundamentalist World, by Gita Sen
Part 2: (300k) The Current State of International Law, by S. James  Anaya
Indigenous Peoples and the International Criminal Court, by Eva Nudd
NOTES: Quandaries of Identity, by Joan Cocks
Part 3: (262k) The Case for Contamination, by Kwame Anthony Appiah
NOTES: Challenges of Association, by Maura Leen
Part 4: (357k) BOOK REVIEW: Theda Skocpol's Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, reviewed by Tony Fleming
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The Responsibility to Protect
Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

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The Sovereignty Revolution
by Alan Cranston, edited by Kim Cranston

Written by the late Senator Cranston, a former president of the World Federalist Association, The Sovereignty Revolution is an analysis of the problems created by our current conception of sovereignty.  This concept, "with every nation supreme inside its own borders and acknowledging no master outside them," only increases conflict.   Cranston makes an impassioned argument that these conceptions of sovereignty, and in turn the role of international institutions, must change before humanity can effectively resolve the world’s increasingly global challenges.

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