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".
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ISBN
9780745670065
Publisert
2014
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Vendor
Wiley Professional, Reference & Trade
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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