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Notes

1 Joseph A. Camilleri's and Jim Falk, Worlds in Transition: Evolving Governance across a Stressed Planet (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2009).

2 Ibid., 530.

3 Anthony Giddens, Runaway World (New York: Routledge, 2000).

4 Camilleri and Falk, Worlds in Transition, 10–11.

5 James N. Rosenau, Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory of Change (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991).

6 Joseph A. Camilleri and Jim Falk, The End of Sovereignty? The Politics of a Shrinking and Fragmenting World (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1992).

7 Camilleri and Falk, Worlds in Transition, xii.

8 Ibid., 2–3.

9 Ibid., 551.

10 Harold K. Jacobson, Networks of Interdependence: International Organizations and the Global Political System, 2nd ed. (New York: Knopf, 1984), 84.

11 Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws, ‘World Politics: Continuity and Change since 1945’, in The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, ed. Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 3–38.

12 Craig Murphy, International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850 (Cambridge: Polity, 1994).

13 Thomas Hale and David Held, ‘Editors’ Introduction: Mapping Changes in Transnational Governance', in Handbook of Transnational Governance: Institutions and Innovations, ed. Thomas Hale and David Held (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011), 3.

14 Thomas G. Weiss, Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007).

15 Adam Roberts and Benedict Kingsbury, ‘Introduction: The UN's Roles in International Society since 1945’, in United Nations: Divided World, ed. Adam Roberts and Benedict Kingsbury, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), 1.

16 Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977). A more recent treatment is Robert Jackson, The Global Covenant: Human Conduct in a World of States (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

17 Camilleri and Falk, Worlds in Transition, 544.

18 Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), 4.

19 See Charles Jencks, The Architecture of the Jumping Universe, A Polemic: How Complexity Science is Changing Architecture and Culture (New York: Wiley, 1997).

20 This argument draws on Thomas G. Weiss and Martin J. Burke, ‘Legitimacy, Identity, and Climate Change: Moving from International to World Society’, Third World Quarterly 32, no. 6 (2011): 1055–70.

21 Ian Clark, Legitimacy in International Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005); Philip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002); and G. John Ikenberry, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001).

22 Paul Kowert and Jeffrey Legro, ‘Norms, Identity, and Their Limits: A Theoretical Reprise’, in The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics, ed. Peter J. Katzenstein (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 473.

23 Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Avon Books, 1992).

24 Kofi A. Annan, ‘“In Larger Freedom”: Decision Time at the UN’, Foreign Affairs 84, no. 3 (May–June 2005): 63–74.

25 Camilleri and Falk, Worlds in Transition, 537.

26 Thomas G. Weiss, ‘What Happened to the Idea of World Government?’, International Studies Quarterly 53, no. 2 (2009): 253–71.

27 See Joseph Preston Barrata, The Politics of World Federation, 2 vols. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004).

28 Paul Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (New York: Pantheon, 1985).

29 Dan Plesch, America, Hitler, and the United Nations: How the Allies Won WW2 and Forged Peace (London: Tauris, 2011).

30 See Thomas G. Weiss, Tapio Kanninen, and Michael K. Busch, Sustainable Global Governance for the 21st Century: the United Nations Confronts Economic and Environmental Crises amidst Changing Geopolitics (Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2009), Dialogue on Globalization, Occasional Paper 45.

31 See, for example, a special issue of Third World Quarterly: 31, no. 8 (2010).

32 Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Delivered by R.K. Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC, Oslo, December 10, 2007, 4.

33 Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962); and Donella H. Meadows et al., The Limits to Growth (New York: University Books, 1972). For a contemporary treatment, see David Held, Angus Hervey, and Marika Theros, eds., The Governance of Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics and Ethics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011).

34 In 2008 the national science agency of Australia found the basic scenario of the 1972 projections a close approximation of the contemporary situation, but the media covered Bjorn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). See Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2004); Graham Turner, A Comparison of the Limits to Growth with Thirty Years of Reality (Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, 2008), CSIRO Working Paper Series 2008–09.

35 Nicholas Stern, Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (London: HM Treasury, 2007).

36 National Security and the Threat of Climate Change (Washington, DC: The CNA Corporation, 2007), 6, available at http://securityandclimate.cna.org.

37 German Advisory Council on Global Change, Climate Change as a Security Risk (London: Earthscan, 2008).

38 Barry Buzan, From International to World Society? English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 7.

39 Alexander Wendt, ‘Why a World State is Inevitable’, European Journal of International Relations 9, no. 3 (2003): 491–542.

40 Hans J. Morgenthau, Scientific Man vs. Power Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946); and Daniel Deudney, Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).

41 Arnold Wolfers, Discord and Collaboration (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1962), 19.

42 Daniel Deudney, ‘Nuclear Weapons and the Waning of the Real-State’, Daedalus 124, no. 2 (1995): 228.

43 Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 246–312.

44 Camilleri and Falk, Worlds in Transition, 15.

45 Kofi Annan, ‘Problems without Passports’, Foreign Policy 132 (September/October): 30–31.

46 Thomas G. Weiss and Ramesh Thakur, Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2010).

47 Camilleri and Falk, Worlds in Transition, 542.