Globalization and Politics: Promises and Dangers

ISBN-13: 9781138357006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 267 str.

Jan-Erik Lane

Opis

This volume is an invaluable, highly readable new text for graduate and undergraduate courses. It sets out the key challenges for globalization in the 21st century and looks at the challenges, responses and risks of globalization. It is required reading for analysts, students and professionals who want to understand what's at stake in the globalization debate.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction: globalization: promises and dangers. Part I Challenges : The optimistic and pessimistic view on global energy; Environmental degradation and environmentalism; Implementing human rights and global rule of law; Diversity of Civilisations. Part II Responses: Coordination of the global market economy; Protecting the global environment; Coordination among states; from sovereignty to reciprocity; Power in international organization; The regionalization of government: a comparison of regional groups of states; Mankind and the world community: relevance of universalism. Part III Could mankind extinguish itself?; A Hollywood planet: a neo-Veblen world?; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Jan-Erik Lane is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.