Global Utilities

La Trobe University
Centre for Dialogue

Reimagining the Future: Towards Democratic Governance

Cover of Reimagining the Future: Towards Democratic Governance

Joseph A. Camilleri, Kamal Malhotra and Majid Tehranian — ($20)

The enormous inequities, inefficiencies and dangers of the current system of global governance have made reform both necessary and inevitable. The question is: what kind of reform, at what pace, under whose initiative and with whose participation?

This study proposes various changes to global and regional governance that will address the undemocratic, inefficient and unequal nature of international governance and justice. Despite the tensions and difficulties that will no doubt emerge in the process of implementation, this proposal rests on the conviction that enshrines three distinct yet closely connected principles: human security, political democracy and socio-economic justice.

'The authors of this study… help us to formulate imaginative, yet realistic proposals for change. They should be thanked for having launched this debate at such a high level'

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Former Secretary General of the United Nations