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Global Governance: Global Governance

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Global Governance

Series Editor: John J. Kirton, University of Toronto, Canada

Global governance is growing rapidly to meet the compounding challenges of a globalized 21st-century world. Many issues once dealt with largely at the local, national or regional level are now going global, in the economic, social and political-security domains. In response, new and renewed intergovernmental institutions are arising and adapting, multilevel governance is expanding, and sub-national actors are playing a greater role, and create complex combinations and private-partnerships to this end.

This series focuses on the new dynamics of global governance in the 21st century by:

  • Addressing the changes in the structure, operation and impact of individual intergovernmental institutions, above all their innovative responses to the growing global challenges they confront.
  • Exploring how they affect, are affected by and relate to non-state actors of global relevance and reach.
  • Examining the processes of cooperation, competition and convergence among international institutions and the many global governance gaps where global challenges such as terrorism, transnational crime and energy do not confront powerful international institutions devoted to their control.
  • Dealing with how global institutions govern the links among key issues such as climate change and health.

In all cases, it focuses on the central questions of how global governance institutions and processes generate the effective, legitimate, accountable results required to govern today’s interconnected, complex, uncertain and crisis-ridden world.

16 Series Titles


China’s G20 Leadership

China’s G20 Leadership

1st Edition

By John J. Kirton
July 29, 2019

Kirton offers a comprehensive, systematic examination of China’s G20 approach, diplomacy and influence since the G20’s start as a forum for finance ministers and central bankers in 1999. This comprehensive reference tool works its way through China’s elevation to the leaders’ level with summits ...

Local Politics, Global Impacts Steps to a Multi-disciplinary Analysis of Scales

Local Politics, Global Impacts: Steps to a Multi-disciplinary Analysis of Scales

1st Edition

Edited By Olivier Charnoz, Virginie Diaz Pedregal
June 12, 2019

Serving as a touchstone for a much-needed research program on social scales, this volume challenges disciplinary boundaries and brings into focus a paradoxical state of affairs in contemporary thought: the domain of local-global interactions has not yet been identified as an object of analysis in ...

The G8-G20 Relationship in Global Governance

The G8-G20 Relationship in Global Governance

1st Edition

Edited By Marina Larionova, John J. Kirton
August 14, 2018

If the growing demand for global governance breathed new life into the established G7/8 and the more recent G20, it raised questions about the evolving and optimal relationship between them. One answer arose from the G20’s third summit, when it proclaimed the G20 would govern global finance and ...

The New Economic Diplomacy Decision-Making and Negotiation in International Economic Relations

The New Economic Diplomacy: Decision-Making and Negotiation in International Economic Relations

4th Edition

Edited By Nicholas Bayne, Stephen Woolcock
October 26, 2016

The New Economic Diplomacy explains how states conduct their external economic relations in the 21st century: how they make decisions domestically, how they negotiate internationally and how these processes interact. Although the previous edition, published in 2011, was able to reflect the impact ...

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