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Free Global Cities: The Future Leaders in Migration and Public Governance

Free Global Cities: The Future Leaders in Migration and Public Governance

Author: Christian H. Kälin
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509976416

Published In: March 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781509976454

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This book proposes a new solution to the problem of the migration crisis engulfing the world by creating safe harbours, or Free Global Cities.

In the face of the largest displacement crisis on record even the most optimistic view of the future suggests that in the years ahead, more and more people will migrate in order to survive. The world requires places where refugees and other migrants forced to leave their homes have the opportunity to work, study, create, start businesses, and rebuild new lives for themselves and their families.

Free Global Cities can deal with this growing global crisis in a completely new way. They are autonomous, self-governed subnational entities that provide a safe environment and rule of law that will create wealth and prosperity for its residents as well as for the nations hosting them. Such a model would contribute significantly to handle the largest migration crisis in history, which the world will be experiencing in the coming decades.

Preface

Professor Dr Kishore Mahbubani (Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore)

Introduction

Dr Christian H. Kälin (Andan Foundation, Switzerland)

Part One: The Migration Crisis

1. Reforming the International Refugee Regime

Professor Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff (Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, USA), Leah Zamore (Humanitarian Policy Centre on International Cooperation (CIC), USA), Emmanuel Guerisoli (Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, USA)

2. What Borders Do We Need?

Mohamed Nasheed, (Secretary-General of the Climate Vulnerable Forum

Former President of the Maldives, Maldives)

3. Climate Migration Will Accelerate the Need for Free Global Cities

Dr Parag Khanna (AlphaGeo, Singapore)

Part Two: A Place to Build a Future

4. The Philosophical Idea of Cities and States

Rev Professor Dr Marek Urban (Pontifical University of John Paul II, Poland)

5. Cities: The Future Leaders in Public Governance

Michael Møller (United Nations, Switzerland)

6. How to Build a Good Country – or a Good City

Simon Anholt (Independent Policy Advisor, UK)

7. Small, Smart States as a Model for the Future

Dr Armen Sarkissian (Former Prime Minister and former President of Armenia, UK)

8. Cities, not Camps

Günter Nooke (Former German Human Rights Commissioner and Angela Merkel's Special Envoy for Africa, Germany)

9. Free Private Cities: A New Operating System for Living Together

Dr Titus Gebel (Tipolis, Singapore)

10. Inclusive Development Zones: A Model for Supporting the Spontaneous Order of Informal Economies

Michael Castle Miller (Albright Stonebridge Group, USA)

Part Three: Planning and Implementing a Free Global City

11. Planning New Cities and Isobenefit Urbanism

Professor Dr Lucad'Acci (Politecnico Torino, Italy)

12. Challenges of Urban Management: Addressing Key City Planning Issues

Professor Dr Eckart Würzner (Mayor, Heidelberg, Germany)

13. The Importance of the Rule of Law

Professor Dr Michael Esfeld (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

14. Independent and Effective Dispute Resolution: Courts, Arbitration, Conciliation, Mediation

Dr Dr Andreas Baumgartner and Professor Mark Beer (The Metis Institute, UAE)

15. Free Global Cities: A Tool to Overcome the Citizenship Apartheid?

Professor Dr Dimitry Kochenov (CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest

Professor, CEU Legal Studies, Austria)

16. Citizenship and Human Rights in Autonomous Cities

Dr Christian H. Kälin (Andan Foundation, Switzerland)

17. Immigration Policy for an Open City-State

Mikael Ribbenvik Cassar (The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), Swedish Migration Agency, Sweden)

18. Monetary Systems for Self-Governed Cities: Blockchain-Based Currency will Change the Way of Money

Andrej Majcen (Bitcoin Suisse, UAE)

19. Railway and Public Transit Systems

Dr Petros Arvanitis (Trainose SA, Greece)

20. How to Build a World-Class Health Care System

Professor Dr Dr hc Paul Robert Vogt (EurAsiaHeart Foundation, Switzerland)

21. Sustainable and Efficient Housing Construction

Dr Benno Büeler (Chairman, CitraGroup, Switzerland)

22. Large Residential Development: The Challenges and Opportunities

Samih Sawiris (Orascom Development Holding AG, Switzerland)

23. Next Generation Energy Security

Dr Götz Ruprecht (Dual Fluid Energy Inc., Canada)

24. Education as the Basis for Future Growth

Andreas Schleicher (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France)

25. Vocational Training and Skills Development

Franz Probst (Skillsonics, Switzerland), Professor Dr Barbara Haering (Member of Advisory Board, Switzerland) and Ken Duncan (SkillSonics, South Africa)

26. How to Build a World-Class University

Professor Tan Eng Chye and Terence Poon (National University of Singapore)

27. Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) or How to Build a Successful Financial Centre Free Zone

Dr Dr Andreas Baumgartner (StIR, UAE)

28. Sandy Springs: The City Based on Private Services

Oliver Porter (Co-Founder, City of Sandy Springs, USA)

29. Building Liveable Cities: Singapore's Path to Success

Professor Khoo Teng Chye (National University of Singapore)