{"product_id":"global-governance-by-thomas-g-weiss-9780745660462","title":"Global Governance","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of a world government? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis probing yet accessible book examines \u003cem\u003eglobal governance\u003c\/em\u003e or the sum of the informal and formal values, norms, procedures, and institutions that help states, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, and transnational corporations identify, understand, and address trans-boundary problems. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe chasm between the magnitude of a growing number of global threats—climate change, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, financial instabilities, pandemics, to name a few—and the feeble contemporary political structures for international problem-solving provide compelling reasons to read this book. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFitful, tactical, and short-term local responses exist for a growing number of threats and challenges that require sustained, strategic, and longer-run global perspectives and action. Can the framework of \u003cem\u003eglobal governance\u003c\/em\u003e help us to better understand the reasons behind this fundamental disconnect as well as possible ways to attenuate its worst aspects? Thomas G. Weiss replies with a guardedly sanguine \"yes\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596489310444,"sku":"9780745660462","price":93.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780745660462-global-governance.jpg?v=1777927694","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/global-governance-by-thomas-g-weiss-9780745660462","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}