Another one who doesn't know the difference between orderly, legal immigration by invitation, and illegal invasion. Plus the truly stupid observation that Australians descend from immigrants.

All of this bullswool is a lead up to the 'necessity' of world governance AKA world government, no borders, no commonsense; with more power for the already too powerful and very corrupt UN.

Add a dash of anti-religion (read anti-Christianity) and you have the complete ravings of a Humanities Professor and Australian Democrat

Ttbn "Another one who doesn't know the difference between orderly, legal immigration by invitation, and illegal invasion. Plus the truly stupid observation that Australians descend from immigrants."

Well, I don't know where your ancestors came from ttbn (?indigenous), but mine emigrated here from Ireland, England and Wales over a hundred years ago. I know this because I have done my family history.
So I DO descend from immigrants.

There is a vast difference between illegal invasion (eg, Germany or Japan in WW2) and asylum seekers or refugees seeking safety (eg from Syria).
Can you honestly say that if you lived in Syria today that you wouldn't be desperate to get out and take your family to the best country you could to make a better life?
If you had kids in Syria, you would want to take them away from harm.

Well I was generally agreeing with most of what you saying until you got to the part about nationalism.

"I would argue that a third priority in improving global governance is to engage the cult of nationalism, which, paradoxically, is still dominant today. We live in a strange world, where the actual authority of the nation-state is being steadily eroded, but yet nationalism as a culture and ideology seems to be more dominant than ever. We need to re-define how we think of ourselves, that is, as global or planetary citizens, rather than citizens of a particular nation-state."

You lost me.
You infuriated me.

I'd argue that its the globalist agenda that the author pushes that is what is actually dangerous.
Why do people see 'Nationalism' - having pride in the nation you came from as some kind of evil?
It's exactly it this point where I think people like the author have completely lost your moral compass.
That in order to have your globalist totalitarian planetary utopia that you must first destroy any sense of national identity?

Madness.

A good attempt at trying to assess the state of the humanly created world chaos in the "twenty-first" century. And postulating different and/or new ways of doing things too.
But unfortunately the old "order" (such as it was) ceased to exist on the 23rd of July 2006. Such being the significance of the use of the number 723 on the title of the book referred to below, and of an essay in the book titled: 723 The Free Declaration of the Universal Moral, Social, and Political Laws of True and necessary Civilization.

These two related references provide a vision, and a blueprint too, for re-ordering the entire global human (and non-human) situation.
http://www.a-institute.org
http://www.dabase.org/p2anthro.htm

The author is right in saying:

"The failure of global governance, and how to remedy this, is a recurrent theme in international politics"

Main problem is countries don't agree on values and goals. This is because there are no singular, self-evident values and goals.

For example - because Germany still feels guilty about WWII it is overly generous in inviting in 100,000s of refugees from the Middle East. This is unsustainable, will give millions of refugees false hopes and lead to greater misery for a greater number.

Europe is being dragged by Germany into multicultural tensions that Europe has never experienced since WWII. Luckily Australia is not attempting to learn refugee policy from Europe.

The interrelationship of Middle Eastern refugee policy and counter-terrorism policy is all too apparent and concerning.

The Cat in the Hat is Back, for power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely!

As if nationalism has not done enough damage, spreading pink spots of governance all over the place, all we need now in order to clean up the mess is a new cat out of the hat, called Super-National-U-N:

Watch in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNaTue5weQ and see what he can do...