1st Edition

The Long Battle for Global Governance

By Stephen Buzdugan, Anthony Payne Copyright 2016
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

The Long Battle for Global Governance charts the manner in which largely excluded countries, variously described as ‘ex-colonial’, ‘underdeveloped’, ‘developing’, ‘Third World’ and lately ‘emerging’, have challenged their relationship with the dominant centres of power and major institutions of global governance across each decade from the 1940s to the present. The book offers a fresh... Read more

Introduction: Global Governance Framed  Chapter 1. Bretton Woods and the Foundations of Modern Global Governance  Chapter 2. The United Nations and the Emergence of the ‘Third World’  Chapter 3. The ‘Third World’ Challenge  Chapter 4. The Neoliberal Turn  Chapter 5. The Proclaimed New World Order  Chapter 6. Towards Global Crisis.  Conclusion: Global Governance amidst Great Uncertainty

Biography

Anthony Payne is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield UK

Stephen Buzdugan is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK

'Buzdugan and Payne have done the study of global governance a huge service, supplying in their new book an unusually thought-provoking consideration of where we are now and how we got here. Written with immense clarity of thought and argument, and combining wide sweep and careful detail, readers  will find here a fresh and challenging take on the evolution and the politics of global governance, which deserves our fullest attention as we navigate what they call the ‘Great Uncertainty’ of the contemporary period.' - Nicola Phillips, Professor, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK

'This co-authored book is an academic tour de force. The work is impressive both in its thematic reach and rich detail. Key events over the last seven decades are reconfigured in terms of the evolution of global governance, with a careful eye to the struggles still ahead. In an era of uncertainty, Buzdugan and Payne offer clear insights about the historical record and recommendations concerning future advances.' - Andrew F. Cooper, Professor, the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo

'Buzdugan and Payne have written an authoritative and comprehensive account of the shifts of power in the global order that both underpin global governance and reshape it. Tracing the changing nature and form of global governance since the 1940s the book provides an ideal text for all those who wish to explore the reorganisation and contestation of global politics.' - David Held, Professor, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK