Simple Solutions to Complex Catastrophes : Dialectics of Peace, Climate, Finance, and Health / by John Braithwaite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braithwaite, John.

Series:

Sustainable Development Goals Series, 2523-3092

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology.

Crime--Sociological aspects.

Crime.

Peace.

International relations.

Comparative government.

Crime Control and Security.

Crime and Society.

Peace and Conflict Studies.

International Relations Theory.

Comparative Public Policy.

Local Subjects:

Crime Control and Security.

Crime and Society.

Peace and Conflict Studies.

International Relations Theory.

Comparative Public Policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Summary:

This open access book sets out simple solutions to managing complex catastrophes. It focusses on four kinds of crises – climate change, crime-war cascades, epidemics and financial crises. These catastrophes are conceived as complex and prone to cascade effects. This book is optimistic in explaining that there are identifiable simple institutions that international society can strengthen and some simple principles that can help humankind to control the expanding gamut of complex catastrophes that confront the planet including simple, stable institutions and regulatory bodies. It draws on a wide range of current and past crises and challenges, from the Cold War to COVID-19, and from Weapons of Mass Destruction to restorative diplomacy with States like China, to provide an urgent and timely path forward. Braithwaite argues that improved peacemaking, and step by step progress toward abolition of Weapons of Mass Destruction helps prevent environmental, pandemic, and financial catastrophes. His method across four kinds of crises is first to prioritize simple principles and simple institutions that prevent coupled catastrophes from cascading one to the other. The next step is to pursue requisite variety in responses by diagnosing dialectically when additional interventions will and will not add value for crisis control. Braithwaite argues that minimal sufficiency of deterrence, responsive regulation of risks, and restorative diplomacy offer superior theoretical foundations than realism in international relations theory and in organizational crime control. It speaks to those interested in criminology, public policy and international relations, political science, sociology, public health and economics. John Braithwaite is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of the Australian National University, and an interdisciplinary scholar of peacebuilding, war crime, business crime, criminological theory, and regulation and governance. He founded and was the first Director of the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at ANU Many of his previous works can be downloaded from johnbraithwaite.com.

Contents:

Preface

1. Rapid cascades, coupled crises

2. Containment of crises

3. Containing states rarely, temporarily

4. Institutions to manage threats

5. Containing Weapon Systems

6. Restorative diplomacy

7. Contest political ritualism

8. Taking simple institutional virtues seriously.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783031487477

OCLC:

1426045042