Managing Global Issues: Lessons Learned

Book Overview

Globalization is pushing to the fore a wide variety of global problems that demand urgent policy attention. Managing Global Issues provides a comprehensive comparative assessment of international efforts to manage global problems. It identifies and explains successes and failures of such efforts, examines the roles of different actors, and outlines lessons that may guide future action by governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector. The volume's 16 case studies examine organized crime, drugs, corruption, human rights, labor rights, health, trade, financial markets, development assistance, the environment, the global commons, communications, weapons of mass destruction, conventional weapons, internal conflicts, and refugees. Managing Global Issues is the result of an international multidisciplinary research team composed of experts in specific global issue areas. The book's broad scope, numerous case studies and its rigorous comparative analytical framework offers a unique and valuable contribution to the rapidly growing literature on global governance. Contributors include Vinod K. Aggarwal (University of California, Berkeley), Thomas Bernauer (University of Z?rich), William Drake (Carnegie Endowment), Octavio G?mez-Dant?s (National Institute of Public Health, Mexico), Catherine Gwin (World Bank), Peter M. Haas (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Christopher C. Joyner (Georgetown University), Brian Langille (University of Toronto), Robert E. Litan (Brookings Institution), Kathleen Newland (Carnegie Endowment), Peter Richardson (Transparency International), Peter H. Sand (Institute of International Law, Munich), Dinah L. Shelton (Notre Dame Law School), Timothy D. Sisk (University of Denver), Joanna Spear (King's College, London), and Phil Williams (University of Pittsburgh).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087003183X
• ISBN13: 9780870031830
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Length: 771 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.9" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

A usefull book

I used this book 3 years ago when I took a class in Harvard. This books allows me to understand the most important subjects in politics today, and also give me a lot of bibliography, so f I was interested in one of the subjects I could go deeper. I used for my thesis and Is a very good tool to do research I extremly recomended!

A Must-Read!

This book is an absolute must-read for a wide range of readers from foreign relations expert to absolute neophyte. As a lay person, I found it extremely readable and accessible. The book offers thought-provoking insights through thoughtfully organized essays and introduced by the authors in such a way that gives the reader a useful context for analysis. A definite 5 star publication!

Keys to the Future

This book is critically important. Well obvious before September 11, but even more so afterwards, it is clear that we are subject to global problems such as climate change which must be addressed on a global level. National contributions are vital but they must add up to a greater whole.In a brilliant analysis Simmons and his co-author examine a wide variety on efforts on global issues, identify what has worked and what hasn't.This...