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Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it
Ian Goldin
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Description for Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it
Paperback. The UN, World Bank, and the IMF were all created in the radically different world of the 1940s. It is becoming increasingly apparent that our global structures are struggling to cope with the new globalized, interconnected challenges of the twenty-first century. Ian Goldin looks to the future to consider radical new approaches to our world order. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 240.
With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. Rapid urbanization, together with technological leaps, such as the Internet, mean that we are now physically and virtually closer than ever in humanity's history. We face a number of international challenges - climate change, pandemics, cyber security, and migration - which spill over national boundaries. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the UN, the IMF, the World Bank - bodies created in a very different world, ... Read more
With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. Rapid urbanization, together with technological leaps, such as the Internet, mean that we are now physically and virtually closer than ever in humanity's history. We face a number of international challenges - climate change, pandemics, cyber security, and migration - which spill over national boundaries. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the UN, the IMF, the World Bank - bodies created in a very different world, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199689033
SKU
V9780199689033
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About Ian Goldin
Professor Ian Goldin is the Director of the Oxford University's Oxford Martin School, Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development and Professorial Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. From 2001 to 2006 he was at the World Bank, first as Director of Policy and then as Vice President. He has published over fifty articles and fifteen books, including ^iGlobalisation for Development: ... Read more
Reviews for Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it
Divided Nations is an absolutely remarkable book, which provides fresh and particularly useful theoretical as well as necessarily practical insights given the present challenges facing humanity.
Jean-Claude Trichet, former president of the European Central Bank and current chairman and CEO of the Group of Thirty.
Goldin is dead right. This could be the best century ever. Or the ... Read more
Jean-Claude Trichet, former president of the European Central Bank and current chairman and CEO of the Group of Thirty.
Goldin is dead right. This could be the best century ever. Or the ... Read more