Global Governance: Global Governance
About the Book Series
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.
Sovereignty and Illicit Social Order
1st Edition
By Christopher Marc Lilyblad
January 06, 2022
Contesting conventional assumptions of the modern nation-state, this book challenges us to rethink the segmentation of the political realm and its underlying economic and social processes. Cognizant of the historical context of systemic change, Lilyblad reconstructs how illicit social order arises...
The Power of the G20: The Politics of Legitimacy in Global Governance
1st Edition
By Steven Slaughter
December 13, 2021
Can the power of the G20 be legitimate? This book examines the politics surrounding the G20’s efforts to act effectively and legitimately and the problems and challenges involved in this activity.Developing a critical constructivist conceptualisation of the G20, the book considers holistically and ...
The Impact of WTO Membership: A Comparative Analysis of China, Russia, and Ukraine
1st Edition
By Anastasia Loginova, Irina Mikheeva
September 30, 2021
What lessons can be learnt from the accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) of Russia, China, and Ukraine? Were there any peculiarities in the adaptation of their economies to the rules and norms of the organisation, and what impact did it have on the world trade system? This detailed, ...
Accountability for Effectiveness in Global Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By John Kirton, Marina Larionova
June 30, 2021
The global community confronts a comprehensive and interconnected array of compelling economic, development and security challenges which require effective global governance. At the centre of world governance stand the new plurilateral summit institutions; the G8 and G20, and UN summits on subjects...
Governance of Arctic Offshore Oil and Gas
1st Edition
Edited
By Cécile Pelaudeix, Ellen Margrethe Basse
June 30, 2021
Global energy problems will remain a challenge in the coming decades. The impact of climate change and the melting of polar sea ice opening up access to offshore hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic Ocean, raises questions for both civil society and the scientific community over drilling ...
Social Closure and International Society: Status Groups from the Family of Civilised Nations to the G20
1st Edition
By Tristen Naylor
June 30, 2021
Laying the foundations of a theory of ‘international social closure’ this book examines how actors compete for a seat at the table in the management of international society and how that competition stratifies the international domain. In a broad historical survey from the ‘Family of Civilised ...
The G7, Anti-Globalism and the Governance of Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Chiara Oldani, Jan Wouters
June 30, 2021
The G7, a self-selected club of like-minded industrialized countries, looks at first glance ill-suited to address current anti-globalist concerns. Despite this, it has successfully confronted anti-globalization, populist and protectionist pressures by focussing on concerns surrounding the ...
The Political and Economic Challenges of Energy in the Middle East and North Africa
1st Edition
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By David Ramin Jalilvand, Kirsten Westphal
June 30, 2021
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are in disarray, and shifts in the field of energy have the potential to drastically affect the course of political and economic developments in the region. Declining oil prices, skyrocketing domestic demand, the rise of unconventional oil and natural gas ...
The Politics of Global Tax Governance
1st Edition
By Henning Schmidtke
June 30, 2021
Why has global tax governance been politicized and how can we explain the varying intensity and content of public debates? This book offers an integrated theory of the politicization of international institutions and a detailed account of how the institutional design and policy output of tax ...
The World Health Organization: Achievements and Failures
1st Edition
By Yves Beigbeder
September 30, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) is undergoing a crisis of credibility and challenge. Having been subjected to a severe financial crisis and criticisms of its management of pandemics such as the H1N1 flu case and the outbreak of Ebola, with a new Director-General at its helm, it is an ideal time...
BRICS and Global Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By John Kirton, Marina Larionova
April 28, 2020
The past few decades have witnessed the development of an increasingly globalised and multipolar world order, in which the demand for multilateralism becomes ever more pronounced. The BRICS group established in 2009, has evolved into a plurilateral summit institution recognized both by sceptics and...
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 ...