What exactly is The Club of Athens / Global Governance Group?
The Global Governance Group is a proposed initiative best visualised in the Greek Triangle diagram in the Executive Summary above. It involves three entities: a Global Governance Institute staffed by world-class experts in a number of fields; a Club of Athens comprised of a blue-ribbon panel of leading world figures; and a Democratic Agora to directly involve private citizens. The whole project is to be known as the Club of Athens (even though, the Club itself is technically one of the three constituent entities). Therefore, although the overall project is in fact the Global Governance Group, the Club of Athens and related Greek metaphors communicate a much sharper message. The most traumatic event of the new millennium to date has been the terrorist attacks on the USA on September-11th, 2001. Does the Club of Athens plan to address this issue? The double attack on New York and Washington on September 11th 2001 is an example of a massive breakdown in global security one of the principa
