{"title":"Series: What's Wrong?","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eWhat's Wrong?\u003c\/em\u003e series invites readers to explore diverse perspectives across philosophy, finance, technology, and more. Each title challenges conventional thinking, offering insightful analysis and fresh questions in areas ranging from ethics and investment to cybersecurity and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a blend of thought-provoking narratives and practical knowledge, this collection is ideal for curious minds seeking to understand complex problems and discover new approaches. Whether through graphic novels, travel reflections, or business strategy, \u003cem\u003eWhat's Wrong?\u003c\/em\u003e encourages deeper inquiry and critical reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"whats-wrong-with-the-imf-and-how-to-fix-it-by-bessma-momani-9781509509676","title":"What's Wrong With the IMF and How to Fix It","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe IMF stands at a crossroad. Derided as increasingly irrelevant in the first decade of the new millennium, the Fund has had its power and prestige restored by the fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis. But will the resurgent IMF assert a more just and sustainable macroeconomic model and provide a voice for poor and marginalised people around the globe? Or will enduring weaknesses within the IMF mean it fails to address these issues?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWhat's Wrong With the IMF and How to Fix It\u003c\/em\u003e, Bessma Momani and Mark R. Hibben dissect the variables and institutional dynamics at play in IMF governance, surveillance, lending, and capacity development to expose the fundamental barriers to change. Identifying four areas that could \"fix\" the IMF, they show how these genuine and workable solutions can give the IMF the effectiveness and legitimacy it needs to positively shape twenty-first-century global governance and push back against volatile and regressive forces in the international political economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461782028524,"sku":"9781509509676","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509509676-what-s-wrong-with-the-imf-and-how-to-fix-it.jpg?v=1774977224"},{"product_id":"whats-wrong-with-the-united-nations-and-how-to-fix-it-by-thomas-g-weiss-9781509507436","title":"What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century’s world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today’s UN is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary challenges to world order. Neither the end of the Cold War nor the aftermath of 9\/11 has led to the “next generation” of multilateral institutions. But what exactly is wrong with the UN that makes it incapable of confronting contemporary global challenges and, more importantly, can we fix it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this revised and updated third edition of his popular text, leading scholar of global governance Thomas G. Weiss takes a diagnose-and-cure approach to the world organization’s inherent difficulties. In the first half of the book, he considers: the problems of international leadership and decision making in a world of self-interested states; the diplomatic complications caused by the artificial divisions between the industrialized North and the global South; the structural problems of managing the UN’s many overlapping jurisdictions, agencies, and bodies; and the challenges of bureaucracy and leadership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second half shows how to mitigate these maladies and points the way to a world in which the UN’s institutional ills might be “cured.” Weiss’s remedies are not based on pious hopes of a miracle cure for the UN, but rather on specific and encouraging examples that could be replicated. 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We just don't need the one that we have. By pitching unequally matched states together in chaotic bouts of negotiating, the global trade governance of today offers—and has consistently offered—developed countries more of the economic opportunities they already have and developing countries very little of what they desperately need. This is an unsustainable state of affairs to which the blockages in the Doha round provide ample testimony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo far, only piecemeal solutions have been offered to refine this flawed system. Radical proposals that seek to fundamentally alter trade governance or reorient its purposes around more socially progressive and egalitarian goals are thin on the ground. Yet, we eschew deeper reform at our peril. 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Charting a different path, he shows how the WTO can be transformed into an institution and a form of trade governance that fulfils its real potential and serves the needs of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464774467820,"sku":"9780745672465","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780745672465-what-s-wrong-with-the-wto-and-how-to-fix-it.jpg?v=1775054373"},{"product_id":"whats-wrong-with-the-united-nations-and-how-to-fix-it-by-thomas-g-weiss-9781509507443","title":"What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organisations and programmes are perpetually in crisis. 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