The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be
solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful.
To manage the global economy, prevent runaway environmental
destruction, reign in nuclear proliferation, or confront other
global challenges, we must cooperate. But at the same time, our
tools for global policymaking - chiefly state-to-state negotiations
over treaties and international institutions - have broken down.
The result is gridlock, which manifests across areas via a
number of common mechanisms. The rise of new powers representing a
more diverse array of interests makes agreement more difficult. The
problems themselves have also grown harder as global policy issues
penetrate ever more deeply into core domestic concerns. Existing
institutions, created for a different world, also lock-in
pathological decision-making procedures and render the field ever
more complex. All of these processes - in part a function of
previous, successful efforts at cooperation - have led global
cooperation to fail us even as we need it most.
Ranging over the main areas of global concern, from security to
the global economy and the environment, this book examines these
mechanisms of gridlock and pathways beyond them. It is written in a
highly accessible way, making it relevant not only to students of
politics and international relation but also to a wider general
readership.
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