Governing the World?: Cases in Global Governance

ISBN-13: 9780415690409 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 242 str.

David Williams; Sophie Harman

Opis

Global governance has become a key concept in the contemporary study of international politics across a variety of usually discrete disciplines (international relations, politics, economics, sociology, development studies).

This text provides an introduction to and exploration of the practices of global governance in contemporary international politics. It consists of a series of discrete case studies written by specialists on the most important areas within global governance including:

• Health
• Poverty
• Conflict
• Finance
• The Environment
• Corruption
• Human Rights
• Communication
• The Internet

Each chapter is written to a standard template and asks the key questions:

• What is being governed and why?
• Who are key actors involved?
• What are the key mechanisms of governance?
• What are the problems and issues that arise in this area?

In addition each chapter contains several case studies to illustrate the broader issues being discussed. The empirical elements of each case study provides students with a grounding in how to think both in concrete problem-solving terms and apply critical understandings of global governance to its modern day processes.

Spis treści

Introduction: Governing the World? Sophie Harman and David Williams 1. Security and Global Governance Jamie Gaskarth 2. Governing Poverty: Power, Poverty and Policy David Hulme and James Scott 3. Global Financial Governance: Taming Financial Innovation Anastasia Nesvetailova and Carlos Belli 4. Governing Corruption Charles Cater 5. Governing Trade Mark Langan 6. The Global Governance of Labour Juanita Elias 7. Governing Communications Thomas Richard Davies 8. Problems and Prospects for Health in the Twenty-First Century Adam Kamradt-Scott 9. Governing Climate Change and the Planetary Environment Carl Death 10. Governing Human Rights: Rendition, Secret Detention and Torture in the ‘War on Terror’ Ruth Blakeley and Sam Raphael 11. Governing Forced Migration Phil Orchard Conclusion Sophie Harman and David Williams

O autorze

Dr Sophie Harman is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at City University London. She has published two books with Routledge – Governance of HIV/AIDS (edited with F. Lisk) and World Bank and HIV/AIDS – and is currently writing her third – Global Health Governance – for the Routledge series on Global Institutions. Sophie’s research interests are in the field of global health, with particular reference to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the World Bank, and the role of financial institutions within global governance. Sophie teaches Global Governance to undergraduates and postgraduates at City. Dr David Williams is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at City University, London. He is the author of The World Bank and Social Transformation in International Politics and a forthcoming book, International Development and Global Politics, both published with Routledge. His research straddles political theory, international politics and international development. David also teaches Global Governance at City.