Gridlock : why global cooperation is failing when we need it most / Thomas Hale, David Held, Kevin Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hale, Thomas (Thomas Nathan), author.

Held, David, author.

Young, Kevin (Kevin L.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International cooperation.

Physical Description:

xviii, 357 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Polity, 2013.

Summary:

The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent runaway environmental destruction, rein-in nuclear proliferation, or confront other global challenges, we must cooperate. But our tools for global policymaking - chiefly state-to-state negotiations over treaties and international institutions - have broken down. The result is gridlock, which manifests across issue areas via a number of common mechanisms. The rise of new powers representing a more diverse array of interests makes agreement more difficult. The problems themselves have also grown harder as global policy issues penetrate ever more deeply into core domestic concerns. Existing institutions, created for a different world, also lock-in pathological decision-making procedures, and the proliferation of new institutions has rendered the policymaking landscape ever more fragmented. Ironically, all of these processes are in part a function of previous, successful efforts at cooperation. Yet, together, they have led to the breakdown of global cooperation, at a time when we need it most. Ranging over the main areas of global concern, from security, to the global economy, to the environment, this book examines these mechanisms of gridlock and pathways beyond them. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Gridlock

Security

Economy

Environment

Beyond gridlock?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780745662381

0745662382

9780745662398

0745662390

OCLC:

856628535