Our Global Neighborhood is the report of the

Commission on Global Governance The Commission on Global Governance was an organization co-chaired by Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, and former Commonwealth Secretary-General Shridath Ramphal, that produced a controversial report, ''Our Global Neighborhood'', in 1995. Th ...

, issued in 1995, advancing the view that nations are

interdependent Systems theory is the interdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or human-made. Every system has causal boundaries, is influenced by its context, defined by its structu ...

and calling for a strengthened

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. It was vigorously criticized by

The New American ''The New American'' (''TNA'') is a right-wing print magazine published twice a month and a digital news source published daily online by American Opinion Publishing Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the John Birch Society. The magazine was cre ...

magazine,

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, and other advocates of national

sovereignty Sovereignty is the defining authority within individual consciousness, social construct, or territory. Sovereignty entails hierarchy within the state, as well as external autonomy for states. In any state, sovereignty is assigned to the perso ...

. In ''Toward Genuine Global Governance: Critical Reactions to "Our Global Neighborhood"'', Harris, Errol E. and Yunker, James A. assembled a set of nine essays by

world federalist The World Federalist Movement advocates strong democratic institutions adhering to the principles of subsidiarity, solidarity and democracy. The movement formed in the 1930s and 1940s by citizens groups concerned that the structure of the new ...

s expressing their disappointment in the report.

References

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