DEMOCRACY FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD The Path from the Pnyx

BACCHUS James

ISBN 10: 1009583212 / ISBN 13: 9781009583213

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2025. 9781009583213, 2025

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8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (small mark on fore-edge - otherwise Fine). Pp. xv + 560 (no inscriptions).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: DEMOCRACY FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD The Path from the Pnyx
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 9781009583213
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009583212
• ISBN 13: 9781009583213
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics

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Synopsis

The path to global sustainable development is participatory democratic global governance – the only truly effective path to confronting pandemics, military conflict, climate change, biodiversity loss, and potential overall ecological collapse. Democracy for a Sustainable World explains why global democracy and global sustainable development must be achieved and why they can only be achieved jointly. It recounts the obstacles to participatory democratic global governance and describes how they can be overcome through a combination of right representation and sortition, starting with linking and scaling innovative local and regional sustainability experiments worldwide. Beginning with a visit to the birthplace of democracy in ancient Athens, a hillside called the Pnyx, James Bacchus explores how the Athenians practiced democratic participation millennia ago. He draws on the successes and shortfalls of Athenian democracy to offer specific proposals for meeting today's challenges by constructing participatory democratic global governance for full human flourishing in a sustainable world.

About the Author

James Bacchus is Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida. He was a founding judge and was twice the Chairman – the chief judge – of the highest tribunal of world trade, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. He is a former Member of the Congress of the United States, from Florida. His previous books include two published by Cambridge University Press, The Willing World (2018) and Trade Links (2022), which were both listed as 'Best Books' by the Financial Times.