Description
Global Governance and the United Nations System offers a wide-ranging analysis of changing world order at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It examines the progression from international to global governance, focusing on the fundamental change of actors, agendas, collective decision making, and the role of the United Nations system. [READ MORE...]
Editors
Volker Rittberger is Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Center for International Relations/Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Contents
From International to Global Governance: Actors, Collective Decision-Making, and the UN in the World of the Twenty First Century • Political Systems in the Postnational Constellation: Social Denationalization and Multilevel Governance • Security-Community building for better Global Governance • Economic Globalization and Global Governance: Towards a post-Washington Consensus? • Pressing Ahead with New Procedures for Old Machinery: Global Governance and Civil Society • A Subsidiary and Federal World Republic: Thoughts on Democracy in the Age of Globalization • Global Governance and Justice.
Contributors
Tanja Brühl • Richard Higgott • Otfried Höffe • Sorpong Peou • Maria Pia Riggirozzi • Yash Tandon • Diana Tussie • Michael Zürn