Since 2007 the world has lurched from one crisis to the next. The rise of new powers, the collapse of our global financial system, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and crisis in the Eurozone have led to a build up of risks that is likely to provoke a more general crisis in our system of global governance if it cannot be made fairer, more effective and accountable.
In this book, nine leading scholars explore the fault lines and mounting challenges that are putting pressure on existing institutions, the ways in which we are currently attempting to manage them – or failing to – and the prospects for global governance in the 21st century. In doing so, the contributors offer a fresh look at one of the most important issues confronting the world today and they suggest strategies for adapting current institutions to better manage our mutual interdependence in the future.
Contributors include Ha-Joon Chang, Benjamin Cohen, Michael Cox, David Held, George Magnus, Robert Skidelsky, Robert Wade, Martin Wolf and Kevin Young.
About the Author
David Held is Master of University College and Professor of Politics and International Relations at Durham University. Charles Roger is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia and Liu Scholar at the Liu Institute for Global Issues.
Features
A major new collection examining the economic and political challenges currently faced by multilateral and transnational governance institutions.
With original research contributions by an international group of renowned scholars, the book addresses the mounting problems affecting global governance institutions and puts forward strategies for making them more effective and accountable.
Offers the most comprehensive analysis thus far of the unique challenges to contemporary global governance arrangements
This highly accessible book will be of great interest to students, scholars, lay readers and practitioners interested in global governance issues
