The Global Governance Reader [Paperback]

This unique book presents students and scholars with a comprehensive and considered overview of the way in which the world is governed.

Rorden Wilkinson draws together seventeen of the most significant works by leading specialists in the field to explore the role of global institutions from the United Nations (UN) and NATO, to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Introductions to each article locate the readings within the broader global governance literature and provide a useful intellectual and historical context. Key concepts include:

• the concept of global governance
• possibilities and challenges
• the governance of global capitalism
• humanitarian crisis
• finance and development
• health and environment
• global civil society.

The Global Governance Reader is the ideal introduction to the key theories and issues behind the most significant emerging areas in world politics.

1. The Report of the Commission on Global Governance  2. Governance in the Twenty-First Century  3. Global Governance: Poorly Done and Poorly Understood  4. Governance, Good Governance and Global Governance: Conceptual and Actual Challenges  5. Humane Governance for the World: Reviving the Quest  6.Global Perestroika  7. The Governance of Global Capitalism  8. New Constitutionalism, Democratization and Global Political Economy  9.Where Angels Fear to Tread: Trends in International Intervention  10. Governing the Borderlands: Decoding the Power of Aid  11. Beyond the North-South Divide: The Two Tales of World Poverty  12. The Democratic Deficit in the InstitulF