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Divided Nations
Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it
Ian Goldin
224 pages
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12 black and white illustrations
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196x129mm
978-0-19-969390-0
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Hardback
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14 March 2013
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- Focuses on the new challenges of global governance in the 21st century
- Draws on the latest research from a variety of areas, including environmental, medical, and social sciences
- Provides perspectives on potential solutions to future global governance
- Explores the critical issues and offers fresh insights in an accessible way
- Written by a former Vice President of the World Bank
With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. Rapid urbanization, together with technological leaps, such as the Internet, mean that we are now physically and virtually closer than ever in humanity's history.
We face a number of international challenges - climate change, finance, pandemics, cyber security, and migration - which spill over national boundaries. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the UN, the IMF, the World Bank - bodies created in a very different world, more
than 60 years ago - are inadequate for the task of managing such risk in the 21st century.
Ian Goldin explores whether the answer is to reform the existing structures, or to consider a new and radical approach. By setting out the nature of the problems and the various approaches to global governance, Goldin highlights the challenges that we are to overcome and considers a road map for the future.Readership: General readers looking for a valuable introduction to an important and timely issue, as well as students of politics, economics, and international relations. Also of great interest to academics and policy makers.
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Ian Goldin, Professor, Director of the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford Professor Ian Goldin is the Director of the Oxford University's Oxford Martin School, Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development and Professorial Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. From 2001 to 2006 he was at the World Bank, first as Director of Policy and then as Vice President. He has published over fifty articles and fifteen books, including Globalisation for Development: Meeting New Challenges (OUP, 2012) and Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped our World and Will Define our Future (PUP, 2011).
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"Ian Goldin has been in the kitchen, at a senior level, of national and international policymaking. It is a messy place. But, as he argues clearly and convincingly, our ability to co-operate across nations is crucial to the stability and growth of our economies. It is crucial too for the protection of our environment and reducing the grave risks of climate change. The necessary co-operation will not be easy but Goldin sets out clear principles and sketches out real possibilities. The world should listen." - Nicholas Stern "Ian Goldin stylishly describes the Gordian knot of international governance and makes some sensible suggestions on how it might be cut." - Mark Malloch-Brown, former UN Deputy
Secretary-General "Goldin offers clear-headed analysis and practical, pragmatic solutions. A must-read." - Kishore Mahbubani, Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, and author of The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World "At a time when, as Ian Goldin argues, global politics is gridlocked, we need greater international co-operation than ever before - and the institutions to sustain it - in order to cope with the sort of problems from economic imbalances to the environment which individual nation states cannot overcome on their own. Ian Goldin shows why this is imperative and how it could be done." - Lord Chris Patten, Chancellor, University of Oxford
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List of acronyms and abbreviations
1: New Global Governance Challenges
2: Reconciling global, national, and local interests
3: Rethinking Reform: nations, networks and knowledge
4: The Power of One: The role of individuals
5: What can be done?
Bibliography
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