Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Bacchus: The Willing World: Shaping and Sharing a Sustainable Global Prosperity

James Bacchus (Univ. of Central Florida; formerly, Appellate Body, World Trade Organization) has published The Willing World: Shaping and Sharing a Sustainable Global Prosperity (Cambridge Univ. Press 2018). Here's the abstract:
In this time of unwillingness, the right kinds of global solutions are needed now more than ever. Climate change is here and intensifying. Anxieties over economic globalization grip many in the fear of change. While these fearful have turned inward into unwillingness, the world's willing are working harder than ever for international and other cooperative solutions. James Bacchus explains why most of the solutions we need must be found in local and regional partnerships of the willing that can be scaled up and linked up worldwide. This can only be achieved within new and enhanced enabling frameworks of global and other international rules that are upheld through the international rule of law. To succeed, these rules and frameworks must for the first time see and treat economy and environment as one. The Willing World explains how best we can build the right legal structure to attain our global goals - and summon and inspire the willingness needed to do it.