1st Edition

Global Governance Futures

Edited By Thomas G Weiss, Rorden Wilkinson Copyright 2022
350 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching the middle of the twenty-first century by exploring today’s most pressing and enduring health, social, ecological, economic, and political challenges. Each of the expert contributors considers the... Read more

1. Making Sense of Global Governance Futures

Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson

PART I: PLANETARY

Introduction

2. Global Governance and the Anthropocene: Explaining the Escalating Global Crisis

Peter Dauvergne

3. War: The Governance of Violence and the Violence of Governance

Laura J. Shepherd

4. Geopolitics: Competition in an Age of Shared Global Threats

Thomas Hanson

5. Civilizations: Fusion or Clash?

Kishore Mahbubani

6. Regions and Regionalism: Confronting New Forms of Connectedness

Rosemary Foot

7. Cities: Understanding Global Urban Governance

Daniel Pejic and Michele Acuto

PART II: DIVIDES

Introduction

8. Human Rights after the West: Goodbye to All That

Stephen Hopgood

9. Migration Governance 2050: Utopia, Dystopia, or Heterotopia?

Alexander Betts

10. The Global Governance of Poverty and Inequality

David Hulme and Aarti Krishnan

11. Race: Apartheid Governance on a Global Scale

Robbie Shilliam

12. People: Who Governs and Who Is Governed?

Laura Sjoberg

PART III: CHALLENGES

Introduction

13. Food: Governance Challenges for a Hot and Hungry Planet

Jennifer Clapp

14. Health: Less Global, Less Health, Less Governance

Anne Roemer-Mahler

15. Climate Action: Beyond the Paris Agreement

Adriana Erthal Abdenur

16. Biodiversity: Protecting the Planetary Web of Life

Maria Ivanova and Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy

17. Aid: The COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond

Catherine Weaver and Rachel Rosenberg

18. Data: Global Governance Challenges

Madeline Carr and Jose Tomas Llanos

19. Illicit Drugs: Prohibition and the International Drug Control Regime

Mónica Serrano

Biography

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center, New York; he is also Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance, at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Eminent Scholar at Kyung Hee University, Korea.

Rorden Wilkinson is Professor of International Political Economy and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Student Experience at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.