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Ideal for students, scholars, policymakers, and anyone interested in international relations, global politics, and the mechanisms behind world order and cooperation. This book serves as a foundational resource for those seeking to comprehend and improve the frameworks that manage global challenges.
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See moreFriends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority.
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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 threatsβclimate change, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, financial instabilities, pandemics, to name a fewβand 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".
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Praised by Craig N. Murphy as essential reading for understanding and improving global policy, the book employs rigorous analysis to uncover gaps in the global governance process. Murphy suggests the core challenge may lie in understanding the causes of global problems rather than enforcement issues alone. Rorden Wilkinson commends the book as the most compelling and accessible text on this complex topic, recommending it for students, scholars, and practitioners keen to grasp and enhance global governance. Both reviewers highlight the book's insightful synthesis and practical suggestions for action.
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ISBN: 9780745660462
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 May 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 372g
Pages: 180
About the Author
Thomas G. Weiss is one of the world s leading authorities onthe challenges and processes of global governance. Former Presidentof the International Studies Association, Tom is currentlyPresidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY GraduateCenter and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for InternationalStudies. He is the author of two popular Polity titles on the UNand humanitarian intervention, both in their second edition.
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