Globalizing Civil Society: Reclaiming Our Right to Power

By David C. Korten

Prompted by the 1998 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Korten's book indicts the world's governments for failing to address growing hunger, housing shortages, unemployment, poverty, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation. He examines the causes of this global crisis and offers fresh solutions reflecting sustainability, community, and equity--the only principles that can assure a healthy future for the world's people.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888363592
• ISBN13: 9781888363593
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

excellent reading on solutions to the global mess

Writing a short book on the global economic and social situation means you have to simplify, and this can be tricky. Korten wrote a large book (When Corporations Rule The World) where he studied the key arguments in detail. I think this enabled him to now write a pamphlet that organizes the key arguments for a more democratic a more participatory society in a very didactic way. The global mess we have created may be complicated, but in fact the alternatives are fairly simple, and Korten presents them with art.