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Global Governance in Transformation

Author : Leonid Grigoryev

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 42,77 MB

Release : 2019-09-03

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3030230929

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This book analyzes the state of global governance in the current geopolitical environment. It evaluates the main challenges and discusses potential opportunities for compromise in international cooperation. The book’s analysis is based on the universal criteria of global political stability and the UN framework of sustainable development. By examining various global problems, including global economic inequality, legal and political aspects of access to resources, international trade, and climate change, as well as the attendant global economic and political confrontations between key global actors, the book identifies a growing crisis and the pressing need to transform the current system of global governance. In turn, it discusses various instruments, measures and international regulation mechanisms that can foster international cooperation in order to overcome global problems. Addressing a broad range of topics, e.g. the international environmental regime, global financial problems, issues in connection with the energy transition, and the role of BRICS countries in global governance, the book will appeal to scholars in international relations, economics and law, as well as policy-makers in government offices and international organizations.



Transformations in Global Governance

Author : Sushil Vachani

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 11,30 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN :

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"The book focuses on two forces integral to the process of globalization. The first is the evolution of intergovernmental organizations, such as the World Trade Organization, and various agreements pertaining to trade, environment, labor, competition an dinvestment. The other equally important factor is the rise of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which have a significant impact on the strategies of mulitnational enterprises, governments and inter-governmental organizations." --book jacket.





Governing Globalization

Author : Anthony McGrew

Publisher : Polity

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 45,30 MB

Release : 2002-12-20

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9780745627342

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Since the UN's creation in 1945 a vast nexus of global and regional institutions has evolved, surrounded by a proliferation of non-governmental agencies and advocacy networks seeking to influence the agenda and direction of international public policy. Although world government remains a fanciful idea, there does exist an evolving global governance complex - embracing states, international institutions, transnational networks and agencies (both public and private) - which functions, with variable effect, to promote, regulate or intervene in the common affairs of humanity. This book provides an accessible introduction to the current debate about the changing form and political significance of global governance. It brings together original contributions from many of the best-known theorists and analysts of global politics to explore the relevance of the concept of global governance to understanding how global activity is currently regulated. Furthermore, it combines an elucidation of substantive theories with a systematic analysis of the politics and limits of governance in key issue areas - from humanitarian intervention to the regulation of global finance. Thus, the volume provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical assessment of the shift from national government to multilayered global governance. Governing Globalization is the third book in the internationally acclaimed series on global transformations. The other two volumes are Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture and The Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate.



Global Transformations

Author : David Held

Publisher : Stanford University Press

Page : 548 pages

File Size : 26,7 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9780804736275

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In this book, the authors set forth a new model of globalization that lays claims to supersede existing models, and then use this model to assess the way the processes of globalization have operated in different historic periods in respect to political organization, military globalization, trade, finance, corporate productivity, migration, culture, and the environment. Each of these topics is covered in a chapter which contrasts the contemporary nature of globalization with that of earlier epochs. In mapping the shape and political consequences of globalization, the authors concentrate on six states in advanced capitalist societies (SIACS): the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and Japan. For comparative purposes, other states—particularly those with developing economics—are referred to and discussed where relevant. The book concludes by systematically describing and assessing contemporary globalization, and appraising the implications of globalization for the sovereignty and autonomy of SIACS. It also confronts directly the political fatalism that surrounds much discussion of globalization with a normative agenda that elaborates the possibilities for democratizing and civilizing the unfolding global transformation.



Transformations in Higher Education Governance in Asia

Author : Darryl S. L. Jarvis

Publisher : Springer

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 35,45 MB

Release : 2019-08-06

Category : Education

ISBN : 9811392943

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This book documents experimentation with various policy and governance approaches that produce structural differences in the composition and organisation of Asia’s higher education systems. In view of the wide variation in the public and private provision of higher education, it showcases how issues of access, equity and modes of participation are addressed, how institutional and programme quality are managed and how academic labour is treated and developed. The book both maps these differences and analyses the country-level dynamics, policy approaches and the problems faced by a variety of states in Asia in the race to develop competitive higher education systems. Focusing on the intersection of governance and higher education policy, it addresses the challenges facing higher education in Asia and the national responses of governments in terms of the organisation of the sector.



Organizational Progeny

Author : Tana Johnson

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 31,90 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0198717792

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While most studies focus on states as principals and international bureaucrats as agents, [the author] demonstrates that many international bureaucrats have mastered the art of insulating themselves from state control.



Global Governance Reform

Author : Colin I. Bradford

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 162 pages

File Size : 42,93 MB

Release : 2007-08-29

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 081571369X

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The current international system of institutions and governance groups is proving inadequate to meet many of today's most important challenges, such as terrorism, poverty, nuclear proliferation, financial integration, and climate change. The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and UN were founded after World War II, and their structures of voting power and representation have become obsolete, no longer reflecting today's balance of economic and political power. This insightful book examines how to make such institutions more responsive and effective. Institutional reform is critically needed but currently in stalemate. A new push is needed from powerful nations acting together through a reformed and enlarged G-8 that includes emerging economies, such as China and India. Global challenges demand integrated approaches, with greater coordination among international institutions. Global Governance Reform argues that without reconstituting the Group of 8 summit into a larger, more representative group of leaders, with a new mandate to provide strategic guidance to the system of international institutions, the world will fall further behind in addressing global challenges. The path to global reform is defined by the need to act in coordinated ways on summit and institutional reform, and this book lights the way.



Sustainability Transformations Across Societies

Author : Björn-Ola Linnér

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 27,59 MB

Release : 2019-10-03

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1108487475

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A comparison of how societal actors in different geographical, political and cultural contexts understand agents and drivers of sustainability transformations.



Transformations on the Ground

Author : Anne Griffiths

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 14,59 MB

Release : 2019-08-09

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0253043581

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Transformations on the Ground considers the ways in which power in all its forms—local, international, legal, familial—affects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use. In Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. On a local level, land and control over its use provides homes, livelihoods, and the economic security to help lift populations out of impoverishment. Yet on the international level, global capital concerns compete with strategies for sustainable development and economic empowerment. Drawing on extensive archival research, legal records, fieldwork, and interviews with five generations of family members in the village of Molepolole, Anne M. O. Griffiths provides a sweeping consideration of the scale of power from global economy to household experience in Botswana. In doing so, Griffiths provides a frame through which the connections between legal power and local engagement can provide fresh insight into our understanding of the global.