Divided Nations

Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it

Ian Goldin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

222 Seiten

2013
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-969390-0 (ISBN)

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The UN, World Bank, and the IMF were all created in the radically different world of the 1940s. It is becoming increasingly apparent that our global structures are struggling to cope with the new globalized, interconnected challenges of the twenty-first century. Ian Goldin looks to the future to consider radical new approaches to our world order.

With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. Rapid urbanization, together with technological leaps, such as the Internet, mean that we are now physically and virtually closer than ever in humanity's history.

We face a number of international challenges - climate change, finance, pandemics, cyber security, and migration - which spill over national boundaries. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the UN, the IMF, the World Bank - bodies created in a very different world, more than 60 years ago - are inadequate for the task of managing such risk in the 21st century.

Ian Goldin explores whether the answer is to reform the existing structures, or to consider a new and radical approach. By setting out the nature of the problems and the various approaches to global governance, Goldin highlights the challenges that we are to overcome and considers a road map for the future.

Professor Ian Goldin is the Director of the Oxford University's Oxford Martin School, Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development and Professorial Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. From 2001 to 2006 he was at the World Bank, first as Director of Policy and then as Vice President. He has published over fifty articles and fifteen books, including Globalisation for Development: Meeting New Challenges (OUP, 2012) and Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped our World and Will Define our Future (PUP, 2011).

List of acronyms and abbreviations ; 1. New Global Governance Challenges ; 2. Reconciling global, national, and local interests ; 3. Rethinking Reform: nations, networks and knowledge ; 4. The Power of One: The role of individuals ; 5. What can be done? ; Bibliography

Zusatzinfo	12 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	136 x 205 mm
Gewicht	336 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-19-969390-0 / 0199693900
ISBN-13	978-0-19-969390-0 / 9780199693900
Zustand	Neuware