Global Governance Futures

Author : Thomas G Weiss,Rorden Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000440621

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Global Governance Futures by Thomas G Weiss,Rorden Wilkinson Pdf

Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching the middle of the twenty-first century by exploring today’s most pressing and enduring health, social, ecological, economic, and political challenges. Each of the expert contributors considers the drivers of continuity and change within systems of governance and how actors, agents, mechanisms, and resources are and could be mobilized. The aim is not merely to understand state, intergovernmental, and non-state actors. It is also to draw attention to those underappreciated aspects of global governance that push understanding beyond strictures of traditional conceptualizations and offer better insights into the future of world order. The book’s three parts enable readers to appreciate better the sum of forces likely to shape world order in the near and not-so-near future: “Planetary” encompasses changes wrought by continuing human domination of the earth; war; current and future geopolitical, civilizational, and regional contestations; and life in and between urban and non-urban environments. “Divides” includes threats to human rights gains; the plight of migrants; those who have and those who do not; persistent racial, gender, religious, and sexualorientation-based discrimination; and those who govern and those who are governed. “Challenges” involves food and health insecurities; ongoing environmental degradation and species loss; the current and future politics of international assistance and data; and the wrong turns taken in the control of illicit drugs and crime. Designed to engage advanced undergraduate and graduate students in international relations, organization, law, and political economy as well as a general audience, this book invites readers to adopt both a backward- and forward-looking view of global governance. It will spark discussion and debate as to how dystopic futures might be avoided and change agents mobilized.

Author : Kevin Gray,Craig N. Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317525158

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Rising Powers and the Future of Global Governance by Kevin Gray,Craig N. Murphy Pdf

This volume contributes to the growing debate surrounding the impact that the rising powers may or may not be having on contemporary global political and economic governance. Through studies of Brazil, India, China, and other important developing countries within their respective regions such as Turkey and South Africa, we raise the question of the extent to which the challenge posed by the rising powers to global governance is likely to lead to an increase in democracy and social justice for the majority of the world’s peoples. By addressing such questions, the volume explicitly seeks to raise the broader normative question of the implications of this emergent redistribution of economic and political power for the sustainability and legitimacy of the emerging 21st century system of global political and economic governance. Questions of democracy, legitimacy, and social justice are largely ignored or under-emphasised in many existing studies, and the aim of this collection of papers is to show that serious consideration of such questions provides important insights into the sustainability of the emerging global political economy and new forms of global governance. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9522810436

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Future of Global Governance by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wolfgang H. Reinicke,Francis Mading Deng,Jan Martin Witte,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 9780889369214

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Critical Choices by Wolfgang H. Reinicke,Francis Mading Deng,Jan Martin Witte,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Critical Choices.

Author : Gideon Baker,David Chandler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134256860

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Global Civil Society by Gideon Baker,David Chandler Pdf

For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly seen as promising nothing less than a reconstruction, or a re-imagination, of world politics itself. Whether in terms of the democratisation of the institutions of global governance, the spread of human rights across the world, or the emergence of a global citizenry in a worldwide public sphere, global civil society is understood by many to provide the agency necessary for these hoped-for transformations. Global Civil Society asks whether this idea is such a qualitatively new phenomenon after all; whether the transformation of the nation-state system is actually within its reach; and what some of the drawbacks might be.

Author : Nilanjan Raghunath
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780228010067

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Shaping the Futures of Work by Nilanjan Raghunath Pdf

The widespread belief that tech-savvy, educated millennials are well positioned to handle the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution is unfounded. It does not fully grasp the reality of a flux society, where relevant technological skills and knowledge are continuously changing: no one is permanently tech-savvy. Millennials, like other generations, face the challenge of needing to continually reskill. This has compounded their struggle to begin their careers at a point when there is no longer any guarantee of lifetime employment or retirement at a set age. Shaping the Futures of Work is a timely sociological exploration of the impact of technological innovations on employment. Nilanjan Raghunath proposes that stakeholders such as states, enterprises, and citizens hold equally important roles in ensuring that people can adapt, innovate, and thrive within conditions of flux. A promising model focuses on collaboration and proactive governance. While good governance includes citizen engagement, proactive governance goes one step further, creating inclusive policies, roadmaps, and infrastructure for social and economic progress. This book reveals that lifelong learning and adaptability are imperative, even for well-educated professionals. Using Singapore and Singaporean millennials as a case study, Raghunath examines proactive governance and delivers research and analysis to elucidate career trajectories, pointing to a work ethic that aims to engage with technological futures. Looking at local and global sociological literature to confirm the need for proactive governance, Shaping the Futures of Work suggests that Singaporean millennials – and professionals around the world – need to better prepare themselves for flux, risk, failure, and reinvention for career mobility.

Author : Heikki Patomäki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134116249

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The Political Economy of Global Security by Heikki Patomäki Pdf

What are the possibilities for and conditions of global security in the 21st century? This book provides an innovative study of future wars, crises and transformations of the global political economy. It brings together economic theory, political economy, peace and conflict research, philosophy and historical analogy to explore alternatives for the future. Patomäki develops a bold, original and thought provoking political economy analysis of the late 20th century neo-liberalisation and globalisation and their real effects, which he describes as a 21st century version imperialism. In order for us to understand global security and to anticipate the potential threats and crises, he argues that a holistic understanding and explanation of history is necessary and demonstrates that a systematic causal analysis of structures and processes is required. Putting this theory into practice, Patomäki constructs a comparative explanatory model which traces the rise of imperialism in the late 19th century and culminated in the First World War. He argues that even a partial return to the 19th century ideals and practices is very likely to be highly counterproductive in the 21st century world and could become a recipe for a major global catastrophe. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, globalization studies, politics, economics and security studies.

Author : Mihály Simai
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 187837933X

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The Future of Global Governance by Mihály Simai Pdf

What are the major political, economic, technological, environmental, and social changes confronting the world today, and what risks do they pose? Given what we know about these changes and risks, what adjustments will have to be undertaken to make the world as peaceful and stable as possible? Drawing on over 30 years' research, the eminent European scholar Mihaly Simai combines a global systems approach with a hard-headed appreciation of political realities as he seeks answers to these two overarching questions. This volume is at once richly informative and profoundly challenging. Unflinching in its diagnosis of the past failures and present inadequacies of global governance, pragmatic in its prescriptions for more effective multilateral cooperation, Simai's work dissects the dimensions and dangers of a world in transition.

Author : Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1856498026

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Global Futures by Jan Nederveen Pieterse Pdf

This work looks beyond the problems of accelerating globalization to examine how humanity can shape it. The contributors suggest a variety of perspectives, changes, policies and institutional reforms to strive for in our increasingly inter-connected world.

Author : Anthony Burke,Rita Parker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349951451

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Global Insecurity by Anthony Burke,Rita Parker Pdf

This innovative volume gathers some of the world’s best scholars to analyse the world’s collective international efforts to address globalised threats through global security governance. Addressing global and planetary forms of insecurity that include nuclear weapons, conventional arms, gender violence, climate change, disease, bio weapons, cyber-conflict, children in conflict, crimes against humanity, and refugees, this timely book critiques how they are addressed by global institutions and regimes, and advocates important conceptual, institutional, and policy reforms. This is an invaluable resource for students, scholars and policymakers in international health, security and development.

Author : Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745678665

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Global Governance by Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of a world government? This probing yet accessible book examines "global governance" or the sum of the informal and formal values, norms, procedures, and institutions that help states, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, and transnational corporations identify, understand, and address trans-boundary problems. The chasm between the magnitude of a growing number of global threats - climate change, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, financial instabilities, pandemics, to name a few - and the feeble contemporary political structures for international problem-solving provide compelling reasons to read this book. Fitful, tactical, and short-term local responses exist for a growing number of threats and challenges that require sustained, strategic, and longer-run global perspectives and action. Can the framework of global governance help us to better understand the reasons behind this fundamental disconnect as well as possible ways to attenuate its worst aspects? Thomas G. Weiss replies with a guardedly sanguine "yes".

Author : S. Gill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137441409

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Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance by S. Gill Pdf

The contributors highlight alternative imaginaries and social forces harnessing new organizational and political forms to counter and displace dominant strategies of rule. They suggest that to address intensifying economic, ecological and ethical crises far more effective, legitimate and far-sighted forms of global governance are required.

Author : Heikki Patomäki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134116232

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The Political Economy of Global Security by Heikki Patomäki Pdf

What are the possibilities for and conditions of global security in the 21st century? This book provides an innovative study of future wars, crises and transformations of the global political economy. It brings together economic theory, political economy, peace and conflict research, philosophy and historical analogy to explore alternatives for the future. Patomäki develops a bold, original and thought provoking political economy analysis of the late 20th century neo-liberalisation and globalisation and their real effects, which he describes as a 21st century version imperialism. In order for us to understand global security and to anticipate the potential threats and crises, he argues that a holistic understanding and explanation of history is necessary and demonstrates that a systematic causal analysis of structures and processes is required. Putting this theory into practice, Patomäki constructs a comparative explanatory model which traces the rise of imperialism in the late 19th century and culminated in the First World War. He argues that even a partial return to the 19th century ideals and practices is very likely to be highly counterproductive in the 21st century world and could become a recipe for a major global catastrophe. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, globalization studies, politics, economics and security studies.

Author : Joseph A. Camilleri,Global Governance Reform Project
Publisher : Department of Politics La Trobe University
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015050779928

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Reimagining the Future by Joseph A. Camilleri,Global Governance Reform Project Pdf

Proposals. Part I, Democratizing global governance -- Part 2, Governance of global financial flows -- Part 3, Global peace and security.

Author : Barry B. Hughes,Devin K. Joshi,Jonathan D. Moyer,Timothy D. Sisk,Jose Roberto Solorzano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317251378

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Strengthening Governance Globally by Barry B. Hughes,Devin K. Joshi,Jonathan D. Moyer,Timothy D. Sisk,Jose Roberto Solorzano Pdf

Strengthening Governance Globally is the fifth volume in the series 'Patterns of Potential Human Progress'. Each volume considers one key aspect of how development unfolds globally and how better to move it in desired directions. This volume identifies the provision of security, the building of government capacity, and the broadening of inclusion of governance on which high-income countries have traditionally made long historical transitions. In contrast, many developing countries today struggle with all three governance transition dimensions simultaneously. Strengthening Governance Globally uses the growing empirical database on governance variables to understand historical change.