BOOK REVIEW. Our Global Neighborhood by the Commission on Global Governance

OUR GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOOD BOOK REVIEW
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1 INTRODUCTION
Our Global Neighborhood is a published book containing the report of the Commission on Global Governance issued in 1995. The report is an extensive study resulting from many years of analysis on the issues affecting the current world reflected by the 28 members of the commission. It touches on the main political and economic subjects that have negatively impacted the whole world for a long time. Further, the report outlines information on the perception that there is ultimate strength in unity between nations. The main notion of the text is on the advancement of the United Nations. However, the report was highly questioned by The New American magazine, a group called John Birch Society and other lawyers of international sovereignty. Additionally, many renowned scholars have written significant essays expressing their utter disappointment in the report. This essay seeks to review the book, giving its summary, explaining its critique and offering knowledge on its application in the current world and in terms of how the text affected my understanding on globalization and sovereignty.[Leung, Cho Kin. “Book Review: Our Global Neighborhood.” The American Economist 40, no. 1 (2017), p. 1]
2 SUMMARY
One of the main themes of Our Global Neighborhood is that the world is changing and that there is, and there will continue to be, a new environment that, instead of human relationships encompassing the borders of their own countries, they now ought to span the globe. The text states that human beings should learn to accept the new realities that people and countries are now interconnected, interdependent and growing every day. This is evident in the first section of the text titled, A New World where it is written that “the collective power of people to shape the future is greater now than ever before, and the need to exercise it is more compelling”. The information in the quotation above has been proven throughout the other chapters for the betterment of the life of man in the twenty-first century since the phenomena explained in the text are some of the greatest challenges facing nations in the world now.[The Commission on Global Governance. “Our Global Neighborhood: the Report of the Commission on Global Governance”. Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 7.]
Our Global Neighborhood was written to initiate what would become a huge undertaking to address the many issues that the global community would be facing as it moved into the new century. In the wake of the argument and the facts provided by the authors, human efforts to organize life on the planet are created and enhanced in the development of global governance. Not since the foundation of the United Nations in 1945 has there been a more thorough attempt to recognize the importance of ensuring peace and progress throughout the world. This enormously important book was realized by the Commission on Global Governance and it serves as combined...