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.

Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institute, provides us an excellent overview of human political history enriched by personal experiences and comments, all organized to show how humanity is slowly but surely creating ever larger political units to the point where now the next step is a creation of a global nation, a politically unified community that encompasses the whole Earth. Talbott gave us his general viewpoint in his 1992 article in TIME when he said, "I'll bet that within the next hundred years . . .

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.

The Uniting of Nations argues for the need for a governed world community and uses the European Union as a model for how that can be accomplished.  One must start with small steps and proceed gradually in such a way that national governments will want to join to gain something specific for themselves.  The European Union would be the nucleus and other countries could join this global political union separately, but they would then be required to work together to form their own regional organizations.  Thus eventually there would be a world fe