- Paperback: 145 pages
- Publisher: Brookings Institution (16 Mar 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0815721412
- ISBN-13: 978-0815721413
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,838,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'We are experiencing unprecedented levels of global connectivity and interdependence. In order to navigate our global interdependence, we need processes where we all think through our own responsibilities toward other fellow humans, and discuss our answers with our peers. A conversation about a global civics is indeed needed, and the university campuses are ideal venues for these conversations to start.' -Martii Ahtisaari, 2008 Nobel Peace Laureate This thoughtful book debates civics in a universal context. It clearly illustrates that we cannot achieve the cooperation that is needed for a globalizing century without developing some form of global civics.' It will always be necessary for citizens and nations to understand costs and benefits. Self-interest will remain an integral component of national policies. It neither should nor can be the only mechanism at work, however. For international cooperation to succeed in our increasingly interdependent world, our perception of worldwide connection and solidarity has to deepen, and our sense of being part of a global community has to strengthen. At times, the sharing that is implicit in any community has to extend beyond national borders. Global Civics reveals how to make that happen. The book's first section makes the case for global civics. The second section presents global perspectives on the question of global civics, including international feedback from public life, academia, and NGOs. The third section starts the all-important discussion of how to build an effective curriculum for global civics, so that institutions of higher learning throughout the world can teach it. As Martii Ahtisaari points out above, institutions of learning must take a leading role in advancing that agenda.
About the Author
Hakan Altinay is a senior fellow in Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution and is former executive director of the Open Society Foundation-Turkey. Kemal Dervis is vice president and director of Global Economy and Development at Brookings and is a former director of the United Nations Development Programme.
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A stimulating and well-written introduction to the very improtant concept of 'global civics'
19 April 2011
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In this brilliantly written and thought-provoking book, Hakan Altinay introduces the notion of global civics--a concept that builds upon the basic tenets behind global ethics, global justice and world citizenship, and suggests that we all have certain rights and responsibilities towards each other by the mere fact of being human on Earth. The book is an attempt to define the concept in greater detail, and to discuss and defend the need for a global civics, which would ideally offer today's world citizens a shared sense of consciousness and responsibility in the face of global issues.
Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World is comprised of eight engaging yet highly accessible essays written by academics and intellectuals all around the world, including Nabil Fahmy, Trevor Manuel, Edgar Pieterse and Tara Hopkins. The book is divided into three major sections: Section One presents and defines the concept of global civics, and discusses the inevitable need for a global civics in today's world. Section Two offers diverse assessments of the concept from all around the world and addresses several significant issues, such as achieving global civics through global solidarity, discussing global civics through literature, and creating a new sense of global security that would ultimately replace the current one mainly preserved by the UN Charter. Section Three discusses various options for a global civics college curriculum, and even proposes a sample syllabus for a fourteen-week course in global civics.
A must read for readers of all ages, Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World invites us to question our increasingly important role as world citizens in a highly interdependent and globalized world. In all likelihood, the concept of global civics is going to gain greater significance in the near future, as the problems of our global world become more and more formidable. As the first book written on the subject, Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World does an excellent job in introducing the concept and kicking off the debate on how to think about global civics.
Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World is comprised of eight engaging yet highly accessible essays written by academics and intellectuals all around the world, including Nabil Fahmy, Trevor Manuel, Edgar Pieterse and Tara Hopkins. The book is divided into three major sections: Section One presents and defines the concept of global civics, and discusses the inevitable need for a global civics in today's world. Section Two offers diverse assessments of the concept from all around the world and addresses several significant issues, such as achieving global civics through global solidarity, discussing global civics through literature, and creating a new sense of global security that would ultimately replace the current one mainly preserved by the UN Charter. Section Three discusses various options for a global civics college curriculum, and even proposes a sample syllabus for a fourteen-week course in global civics.
A must read for readers of all ages, Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World invites us to question our increasingly important role as world citizens in a highly interdependent and globalized world. In all likelihood, the concept of global civics is going to gain greater significance in the near future, as the problems of our global world become more and more formidable. As the first book written on the subject, Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World does an excellent job in introducing the concept and kicking off the debate on how to think about global civics.
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