When we speak of global governance today, we no longer mean simply state-to-state diplomacy, international treaties, or intergovernmental organizations like the United Nations. Alongside these ‘traditional' elements of global politics are a host of new institutions ranging from global networks of governmental officials, to private codes of conduct for corporations, to action-oriented partnerships of NGOs, governments, corporations, and other actors. These innovative mechanisms offer intriguing solutions to pressing transnational challenges as diverse as climate change, financial governance, workers' rights, and public health. But they also raise new questions about the effectiveness and legitimacy of transnational governance. An expanding body of scholarship has sought to identify and assess these new forms of governance, but this young body of work has lacked a sense of the larger picture. This volume seeks to fill that need by presenting a comprehensive overview of new forms of transnational governance. This resource is essential for those who want to explain why transborder governance has changed and to understand what implications these changes have for global politics.

Product Description: The world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overlapping communities of fate, there has been a renewed enthusiasm for thinking about what it is that human beings have in common, and to explore the ethical basis of this...read more

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Product Description: This book examines the political, economic and social transformation of the six member-states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the ways in which these states are both shaping, and being reshaped by, the processes of globalisation...read more

Product Description: Esta obra, que se ha convertido en una lectura indispensable para los interesados en la política, la teoría política y la filosofía política, ofrece una introducción a las concepciones centrales de la democracia desde la Grecia clásica hasta el presente y una discusión crítica de lo que hoy es la democracia...read more

Product Description: In May 1997, the then UK Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, famously said that foreign policy should have ‘an ethical dimension’, and that the Labour Government would ‘put human rights at the heart of foreign policy’. Although not described in these terms, these assertions were an attempt to articulate a ‘progressive’ conception of foreign policy for the UK...read more

Product Description: What is the future of culture in the 21st century? With contributions from Will Hutton, Homi Bhabha, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jürgen Habermas and Amartya Sen, among others, this compendium of some of the world’s most prominent and diverse thinkers gathers together a broad range of answers to the question, ‘What is the future of culture in the age of globalization?’ From the perspectives of academia, international relations, business, economics, policy making, cultural institutions, artists, and their audiences, these diverse essays from internationally acclaimed thinkers around the world represent a major theoretical and methodological challenge to the social sciences, and raise questions about the nature of globalization and the culture of change...read more

Product Description: In May 1997, the then UK Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, famously said that foreign policy should have ‘an ethical dimension’, and that the Labour Government would ‘put human rights at the heart of foreign policy’. Although not described in these terms, these assertions were an attempt to articulate a ‘progressive’ conception of foreign policy for the UK...read more

An introduction and critical assessment of democracy from Ancient Greece to the present day.

Product Description: This is the fourth volume in the highly acclaimed Global Transformations series. It follows in the footsteps of Global Transformations, The Global Transformations Reader and Governing Globalization. All these volumes have been widely adopted in courses on globalization and global governance across the world, and Globalization Theory will find a place alongside these texts...read more

What is global inequality? How can it be measured? What are themajor trends and patterns? What are the implications of globalinequality for the world economy and multilateral governance? Whatrole does and should inequality play in national and internationalpolicy-making? In this comprehensive overview, the authors address these keyquestions. They examine the major issues that need to be confrontedin conceptualizing, measuring and analysing contemporary patternsof global inequality. In addition, they explore the implications ofthese patterns for politics and public policy. In explaining thecomplex global patterns of social stratification, they highlight anintensive debate about whether and to what extent inequalitymatters. The book also addresses this debate, and seeks to set outthe major alternative positions. The book's authors include many of the most distinguished figuresin the field, including David Dollar, G?sta Esping-Andersen, NancyFraser, James K. Galbraith, Ravi Kanbur, Branko Milanovic, ThomasW. Pogge, Bob Sutcliffe, Grahame F. Thompson, Anthony J. Venables,and Robert H. Wade. This book will be of great interest to students in politics,sociology and international relations as well as to all thoseinterested in this key topic.

Today's news media is full of references to 'globalization' - a buzz word that is quickly becoming ubiquitous. But what exactly is globalization? What are its main driving forces? Does it truly embrace all aspects of our lives, from economics to cultural developments? A Globalizing World? examines these and other key questions in a highly accessible fashion, offering a clear and intelligent guide to the big ideas and debates of our time. In doing so, it does not take one particular stance for or against globalizaton; rather, it examines the arguments and evidence about its nature, form and impact. After introducing the main theoretical positions of those who have studied the subject, key chapters look at the changing form of modern communication and cultural industries, trade patterns and financial flows of the world economy, and whether or not the 'new political world order' is qualitatively different from the old state system. This is essential reading for all students of politics, economics and international relations.

Product Description: In this volume some of the world's leading analysts of globalization discuss the economic, political and ethical implications of global economic integration. They assess the benefits and the costs of globalization and suggest strategies for reconciling it with the interests and aspirations of the people in all regions of the world...read more

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