Richard Falk

Richard Falk

Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Fellow of the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Associate Fellow at Tellus Institute. He directs the project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy at UCSB and formerly served as director of the North American group of the World Order Models Project and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. He is the author of such books as Power Shift: On the New Global Order; (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance; Religion and Humane Global Governance; and Explorations at the Edge of Time. He holds an SJD from Harvard University.

GTI Contributions
Action vs. Abstraction
GTI Forum
Action vs. Abstraction
Contribution to GTI Forum Big History and Great Transition
May 2023

Beware Utopian Traps
GTI Forum
Beware Utopian Traps
Contribution to GTI Forum Solidarity with Animals
February 2023

Navigating a Fortress World
GTI Forum
Navigating a Fortress World
Contribution to GTI Forum Which Future Are We Living In?
November 2022


Response to Comments
GTI Forum
Response to Comments
Contribution to GTI Forum Can Human Solidarity Globalize?
August 2021

Defying Hidebound Institutions
GTI Forum
Defying Hidebound Institutions
Contribution to GTI Forum The Pedagogy of Transition
May 2021


Expanding Our Ambitions
GTI Forum
Expanding Our Ambitions
Contribution to GTI Forum Planetize the Movement!
April 2020


Roundtable contribution on World Political Party - Richard Falk
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable Party Time?
February 2019
The prime historical moment for a world political party may have passed, but the idea can still inspire us to move forward.

Roundtable contribution on Nuclear Abolition - Richard Falk
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable How to Ban the Bomb
August 2018
The world today, with its anodyne arms control paradigm and resurgent nationalism, makes nuclear disarmament an uphill battle, but there’s still hope.

Roundtable contribution on Global Government - Richard Falk
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable Global Government
An exchange on the essay Global Government Revisited
October 2017
Without transforming both the economic and ideological premises of state-centrism, there is little chance of moving toward the vision Cabrera lays out.


Changing the Political Climate: A Transitional Imperative
Essay
Changing the Political Climate: A Transitional Imperative
September 2014

Claims of “world citizenship” are premature in the absence of a global political community. The concept of the “citizen pilgrim” can help us reimagine citizenship as the struggle to create such a community to bring humane global governance to the twenty-first century.

Commentary from Franck Amalric, Joseph Camilleri, Larry George, Robert Johansen, and Robert Paehlke, and a response by the author.


Richard Falk
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable "Global Citizenship"
June 2014