Governance for a Higgledy-Piggledy Planet: Crafting a Balance Between Local Autonomy and External Openness

ISBN-13: 9780815738718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 186 str.

Ralph C. Bryant

Spis treści

• Contents:
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Analytic Fundamentals: Identity Spaces, Decision Spaces, Jurisdictions, Governing Authorities
• Externalities, Market Failures, Public Goods, Governance Failures
• Trade-offs
• Benefits of External Openness
• Costs and Risks of External Openness
• Distribution of the Net Benefits and Net Costs of External Openness
• Tensions between Local Autonomy and External Openness
• De Jure Sovereignty and De Facto Autonomy
• 3. Localism
• Insiders and Outsiders
• Simultaneously Looking Inward and Outward
• 4. Border Buffers
• General Guidelines
• Border Buffers for Goods, Services, and Financial Transactions
• Localist Diversity and a Level Playing Field?
• International Minimum Standards for All Jurisdictions?
• 5. Cross-Border Migration of People
• 6. External Imbalances and Exchange Rates
• Imbalances in Cross-Border Interactions
• Trade-off Choices for a Nation's Financial Governance
• Exchange-Rate Flexibility
• 7. Cross-Border Governance and International Cooperation
• Employ Border Buffers as Hostile Policy Instruments?
• Global Climate Change: Progress Depends on International Cooperative Agreements
• Cross-Border Comity, Historical Progress
• 8. Summing Up: Crafting a Balanced Compromise
• Postscript: Emergence of the Coronavirus Pandemic
• References
• Index