Richard Falk
Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Fellow of the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He directs the project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy at UCSB and formerly served as director the North American group in the World Order Models Project. Between 2008 and 2014, Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. His most recent book, (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014), proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Religion and Humane Global Governance (2001), Explorations at the Edge of Time (1993), Revolutionaries and Functionaries (1988), The Promise of World Order (1988), Indefensible Weapons (1983), A Study of Future Worlds (1975), and This Endangered Planet (1973).-
GTI Contributions
How to Ban the Bomb
A contribution to an exchange on Nuclear Abolition: The Road from Armageddon to Transformation
Roundtable on Global Government
An exchange on Global Government Revisited
Changing the Political Climate: A Transitional ImperativeClaims of “world citizenship” are premature in the absence of a global political community. The concept of the “citizen pilgrim” can help us reimagine citizenship as the struggle to create such a community to bring humane global governance to the twenty-first century.
Commentary from Franck Amalric, Joseph Camilleri, Larry George, Robert Johansen, and Robert Paehlke, and a response by the author.
Commentary on Global Citizenship: Plausible Fears and Necessary Dreams