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A World of Struggle: How Power, Law, and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy
David Kennedy
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Description for A World of Struggle: How Power, Law, and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy
Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 22 line illus. 3 tables. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
A World of Struggle reveals the role of expert knowledge in our political and economic life. As politicians, citizens, and experts engage one another on a technocratic terrain of irresolvable argument and uncertain knowledge, a world of astonishing inequality and injustice is born. In this provocative book, David Kennedy draws on his experience working with international lawyers, human rights advocates, policy professionals, economic development specialists, military lawyers, and humanitarian strategists to provide a unique insider's perspective on the complexities of global governance. He describes the conflicts, unexamined assumptions, and assertions of power and entitlement that lie at the center ... Read more
A World of Struggle reveals the role of expert knowledge in our political and economic life. As politicians, citizens, and experts engage one another on a technocratic terrain of irresolvable argument and uncertain knowledge, a world of astonishing inequality and injustice is born. In this provocative book, David Kennedy draws on his experience working with international lawyers, human rights advocates, policy professionals, economic development specialists, military lawyers, and humanitarian strategists to provide a unique insider's perspective on the complexities of global governance. He describes the conflicts, unexamined assumptions, and assertions of power and entitlement that lie at the center ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
582g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691146782
SKU
V9780691146782
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About David Kennedy
David Kennedy is the Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. He is the author of The Rights of Spring: A Memoir of Innocence Abroad; Of War and Law; and The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism, and the editor of The Canon of American Legal ... Read more
Reviews for A World of Struggle: How Power, Law, and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy
Selected for The New York Times Book Review's What's the Best Book, New or Old, You Read this Year? 2016 David Kennedy's A World of Struggle describes our world more accurately than any book I have read this year. Kennedy offers no clear prescriptions. Yet he clarifies that understanding how this world of injustice and inequality came ... Read more