page_title: New World Alliance
section_title: Assessments
hierarchical_section_title: New World Alliance / Assessments
caption_attribution_description: English: Jeremy Rifkin. Español: Jeremy Rifkin (año 2009), promotor de la Tercera Revolución Industrial (TRI) como la única solución global posible para la crisis energética y económica.
context_page_description: The New World Alliance was an American political organization that sought to articulate and implement what it called "transformational" political ideas. It was organized in the late 1970s and dissolved in 1983. It has been described as the first U.S. national political organization of its type and as the first entity to articulate a comprehensive transformational political program.
  The Alliance maintained a national office two blocks from the White House. It established chapters across the U.S., produced a 98-page political platform, conducted "Political Awareness Seminars" to help participants learn to communicate across ideological and psychological divides, initiated national "Consultations with Elected Officials," and produced a national political newsletter whose sponsors included Ecotopia author Ernest Callenbach and psychologist Carl Rogers.
  Over the decades, social scientists and others have sought to explain why the Alliance did not achieve a longer life. There is no agreement. Explanations have touched on history, culture, process, leadership, transformational political assumptions and behaviors, and more.
context_section_description: The Alliance raised many hopes in transformational circles.  For example, New Realities, a glossy transformation-oriented magazine, devoted a 3,000-word article to the organizing effort, and futurist Hazel Henderson pointed her readers beyond the U.S. Citizens Party to the "more visionary" movement incorporating as the New World Alliance.  Arthur Stein noted that each of the founding sponsors of the Alliance's political newsletter had distinguished themselves in their fields.
  To some observers, including some inside the organization, the Alliance fell short of its promise and potential.  It was certainly "short-lived," as three political scientists put it.  To other observers, the Alliance was a valuable pioneer.
caption: Prominent writer and activist Jeremy Rifkin was a founding sponsor of the Alliance's political newsletter.[2]
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