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Rethinking Global Governance - Learning from Long Ignored Societies (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Global Governance - Learning from Long Ignored Societies (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Global Governance argues that long-ignored, non-western
political systems from the distant and more recent past can provide
critical insights into improving global governance. These societies
show how successful collection action can occur by dividing
sovereignty, consensus building, power from below, and other
mechanisms. For a better tomorrow, we need to free ourselves of the
colonial constraints on our political imagination. A pandemic, war
in Europe, and another year of climatic anomalies are among the
many indications of the limits of global governance today. To meet
these challenges, we must look far beyond the status quo to the
thousands of successful mechanisms for collective action that have
been cast aside a priori because they do not fit into Western
traditions of how people should be organized. Coming from long past
or still enduring societies often dismissed as "savages" and
"primitives" until well into the twentieth century, the political
systems in this book were often seen as too acephalous,
compartmentalized, heterarchical, or anarchic to be of use. Yet as
globalization makes international relations more chaotic,
long-ignored governance alternatives may be better suited to
today's changing realities. Understanding how the Zulu, Trypillian,
Alur, and other collectives worked might be humanity's best hope
for survival. This book will be of interest both to those seeking
to apply archaeological and ethnographic data to issues of broad
contemporary concern as well as to academics, politicians, policy
makers, students, and the general public seeking possible
alternatives to conventional thinking in global governance.
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