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Book Reviews - Ordered by Author
Re-Order by: Author | Title | Publication Date | Reviewer
by
2008
Princeton University Press
Review by , November 12, 2010
Ronald J.
Glossop
Democracy is needed at the global level, not just within nations. That is the thesis of this book directed mainly to Western thinkers, especially in the United States. The governance of the world community should be in the hands of all its inhabitants, not just the small proportion found in earlier industrialized, earlier democratized richer countries.
by
2004
Praeger
Review by , November 18, 2010
Ronald J.
Glossop
World Federalists who would like to know more about their roots have a new treasure here. The first sentence of this new two-volume work by a professional historian (who knows the movement from within as well as through intensive study) succinctly describes the whole: "This book is a history of the practical, political efforts to establish a constitutionally limited, democratically representative, federal world government in order to effectively abolish war."
by
2009
BookSurge Publishing
Review by , November 18, 2010
Don
Kraus
When Art was drafted in early 1943 it was the beginning of four years of service to his country. He first served in a camp for conscientious objectors for seven months, and then was briefly at home, followed by assignment to a Medical Replacement Center in Texas. After three weeks in Pennsylvania preparing for overseas shipment, he was returned to Texas and assigned as company clerk in a unit preparing for overseas duty. Art was then transferred to MAC OCS preparing for his two years of service as an officer. Excerpts from the letters exchanged between Art and wife, Dods, tell the story.
by
2005
Origin Press (CA)
Review by , November 18, 2010
Ronald J.
Glossop
This new book is a straightforward let's-look-at-the-arguments appeal to progressive thinkers to accept nothing less than a radically changed international system focused on enforceable global law as the only way to abolish war and militarism as well as really addressing other global problems such as limiting population growth, preventing and halting the spread of global epidemics, preserving the environment, dealing with the problem of poverty, and limiing the activities of global corporations.
by
2010
Rutgers University Press
Review by , December 2, 2010
Ronald
Glossop
Apocalypse Never is a masterful combination of fact-filled cogent argumentation on the urgent need for and the available means to get a world free of nuclear weapons with a passionate presentation of the reality that the fate of humanity requires that this absolutely essential task be undertaken now. Daley’s great writing style filled with memorable quotations makes for captivating reading about this serious subject.
by
2004
Bookman Publishing
Review by , November 18, 2010
Scott
Hoffman
America the Almighty, a devastating critique of American foreign policy, examines both healthy and dangerous trends in international relations. It shows how, all too frequently, the Bush administration has become the cause of the latter.
by
2005
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Review by , July 9, 2011
Ronald
Glossop
WAR: THE LETHAL CUSTOM
by Gwynne Dyer [New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005]
(Book review by Ronald J. Glossop--July 9, 2011)
War: The Lethal Custom is a revised version of Dyer’s 1985 classic War which was written in conjunction with the similarly named popular public television series shown at the height of the nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States.
by
2008
Brookings Institution Press
Review by , April 22, 2011
Wolfgang
Schmidt
This clearly written book is a must-read if you believe in our common humanity and are interested in human rights and international affairs. The author takes the reader on a journey to the cutting edge of contemporary human-rights thinking and into the evolution of a new concept that, if realized, will save countless lives by preventing or ending mass atrocity crimes.
by
2009
iUniverse.com; Reissue edition
Review by , November 18, 2010
Robert
Enholm
Citizens for Global Solutions is proud to announce the release of Faithful Against Torture, a collection of essays by people of faith considering torture in the light of the principles, precepts and traditions of their religions.
Citizens for Global Solutions supports the establishment and enforcement of universal standards prohibiting torture. We believe that the United States will be more secure in a world in which international treaties and norms prohibit torture and that U.S. service personnel and citizens will be safest when such standards are universally respected.
by
2007
Vanderbilt University Press
Review by , November 18, 2010
Ronald J.
Glossop
Didier Jacobs, Special Advisor to the President of Oxfam America, puts forth the view that the democratic ideal--the view that all members of a community should have equal say in determining the policies of that community--is already at work producing effects in the global community. Jacobs believes that this democratic ideal which moved Britain toward greater political equality in the 19th century, is now being applied at the global level. Global democracy is "an idea whose time has come" (p.