Edinburgh University Press Hardback English
New World New Rules
Global Cooperation in a World of Geopolitical Rivalries
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The need for collective action has never been greater, but geopolitics, structural changes and diverging preferences mean that existing global governance arrangements, devised at Bretton Woods in the 1940s, are either unravelling or outmoded. Reconciling this contradiction is todays pressing global policy challenge. In this short book, two of Europes most-experienced policymakers and analysts outline a new agenda for global governance. They examine governance practices across several key policy areas climate, health, trade and competition, banking and finance, taxation, migration and the digital economy and consider what works and what doesn't, and why. The global governance solutions they put forward are ambitious but pragmatic. They require complexity, flexibility and compromise. Attributes that global governments are demonstrably short of, but todays global crises urgently demand.
The need for collective action has never been greater, but geopolitics, structural changes and diverging preferences mean that existing global governance arrangements, devised at Bretton Woods in the 1940s, are either unravelling or outmoded. Reconciling this contradiction is todays pressing global policy challenge.
In this short book, two of Europes most-experienced policymakers and analysts outline a new agenda for global governance. They examine governance practices across several key policy areas climate, health, trade and competition, banking and finance, taxation, migration and the digital economy and consider what works and what doesn't, and why. The global governance solutions they put forward are ambitious but pragmatic. They require complexity, flexibility and compromise. Attributes that global governments are demonstrably short of, but todays global crises urgently demand.