Global discord : values and power in a fractured world order / Paul Tucker

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tucker, Paul M. W., 1958- author.

Contributor:

Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations.

Geopolitics--Economic aspects.

Geopolitics.

Economic geography.

Physical Description:

xiii, 533 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Values and power in a fractured world order

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggle Can the international economic and legal system survive today's fractured geopolitics? Democracies are facing a drawn-out contest with authoritarian states that is entangling much of public policy with global security issues. In Global Discord, Paul Tucker lays out principles for a sustainable system of international cooperation, showing how democracies can deal with China and other illiberal states without sacrificing their deepest political values. Drawing on three decades as a central banker and regulator, Tucker applies these principles to the international monetary order, including the role of the U.S. dollar, trade and investment regimes, and the financial system. Combining history, economics, and political and legal philosophy, Tucker offers a new account of international relations. Rejecting intellectual traditions that go back to Hobbes, Kant, and Grotius, and deploying instead ideas from David Hume, Bernard Williams, and modern mechanism-design economists, Tucker describes a new kind of political realism that emphasizes power and interests without sidelining morality. Incentives must be aligned with values if institutions are to endure. The connecting tissue for a system of international cooperation, he writes, should be legitimacy, creating a world of concentric circles in which we cooperate more with those with whom we share the most and whom we fear the least."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Geopolitics and Legitimacy in a Globalized World

Part I. History International Order, Law, And Organizations In A Eurocentric World

2, A European Order : From Christendom to the League

A Leadership-Based International System Is Built and Adapts : From World War II and Its Horrors to Judicialized International Law, Financial Crisis, and War

Geoeconomics within Geopolitics : China and the West Today, and Scenarios for Tomorrow

Part II. Framework : International Institutions, Regimes, Organizations, And Society

International Policy Coordination and Cooperation : Humean Conventions and Norms

Institutions for Cooperation : Equilibria, Regimes, and Organizations

Order, System, and Society : From Self-Enforcing Order to an International Society of Designed Substantive Law?

Part III. Geopolitics With Geoeconomics Order, "Civilizational" Tensions, And A Dislocated International System

Varieties of Order and System : The Contingent Societal Stability of an Institutionalized Hierarchy with American European Roots

Rising Powers, Norms, and Geopolitics : Party-Led China's Self-Identity and US Political Nativism as Risks to System and Order

Wishful Thinking : Policy Robustness, Resilience, and Legitimacy

Part IV. Legitimacy : Values And Principles For International Order And System

Sovereignty and the Globalization Trilemma : Universalist versus Pluralist International Law and System in a World of Civilizational States

Legitimacy and Legitimation : A Humean-Williamsian Framework

Political Realism in International Relations : Order versus System in a World of Concentric Legitimation Circles

Principles for Constitutional Democracies Legitimately Delegating to International Organizations

Part V. Applications : Reforms To The International Economic System During Shifting Geopolitics

Legitimacy for a Fragile International Economic System Facing Fractured Geopolitics

The International Monetary Fund and the International Monetary Order : An Exercise in Excessive Discretion with Missing Regimes?

The World Trade Organization and the System for International Trade : Is Judicialized Universalism Unsustainable Because Illegitimate?

Preferential Trade Pacts and Bilateral Investment Treaties : Security First, or Globalization via Mimesis?

Basel and the International Financial System : Are the Tower's Denizens Too Powerful?

Conclusions : Global Discord : Between Disagreement and Conflict

Appendix. Principles for Constitutional Democracies Participating and Delegating in International System.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-514) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.

Other Format:

Online version : Tucker, Paul M. W., 1958- Global discord.

ISBN:

9780691229317

0691229317

OCLC:

1346516710