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    Global Politics After 9/11: Failed Wars, Political Fragmentation and the Rise of Authoritarianism
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    Global Politics After 9/11: Failed Wars, Political Fragmentation and the Rise of Authoritarianism

    By Global Policy

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    'The world of liberal internationalism appears to be on its death bed – but what will take its place? There are few better guides to what may lie in store for us than David Held, whose essays here display great erudition, institutional imagination and historical perspective.' - Dani Rodrik

    The volume charts a world in which globalization creates remarkable opportunities and significant risks. Opportunities because a global division of labour, world trade patterns, global communication infrastructures, a rule based institutional order and a growing sense that action is needed now on global challenges creates unparalleled prospects for prosperity, development and peaceful coexistence. Risks because never before have human communities been so densely connected allowing a crisis in one place, whether economic or security driven, to ricochet across the world in seconds. At the same time, the knowledge humankind has developed is no longer just an elite privilege; diffused and available on the internet (accessible to over a third of the world’s population), the cognitive resources of science and culture can be explored and exploited by a diversity of actors, with benign or regressive intent.

    The book describes a crossroads. One road points to authoritarianism, while another opens up a more hopeful cosmopolitan future. The path to authoritarianism could be created by the dangerous drift in the world order, and a search for decisive solutions from ‘strong man’ leaders faced with a world that is seemingly out of control and where a retreat to the familiar (and away from the Other) offers a tempting way forward. But, it argues there are alternative routes. Indeed, the architects of the post-war era, who put in place a re-invigorated law of war and the human rights regime, set down elements of a universal constitutional order in which the principles of the equal moral standing of each and every person, and the equal rights and duties of each and all, became the bedrock of peace and stability.

    Ultimately, David Held concludes that the future is still in our hands. Our forebears created stepping stones to a universal constitutional order, and we can still walk across them and build on them further. This remains a future worth struggling for.

    Contents

    Part I: The 9/11 Wars and the Arab Spring

    1.Violence and Justice in a Global Age
    2.Return to the state of nature
    3.The End of the American Century: 9/11 Ten Years On
    4.The Arab 1989?
    5.The Arab 1989 Revisited
    6.Wars of Decline: Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya
    7.The Arab Spring and the Changing Balance of Global Power
    8.Democracy, Syria and the western way of war
    9.Red lines and dangerous incoherence: Syria and the international community
    10.9/11 Wars: A Reckoning
    11.The Vicious Cycle of Pitiless Violence
    12.Reflections on Intervention in the 21st Century

    Part II: The Failure of Western Politics

    13.Global Challenges: Accountability and Effectiveness
    14.The Decline of the West? The Future of Global Governance in the Face of the Rise of Asia
    15.Gridlock: The Growing Breakdown of Global Cooperation
    16.Global Financial Cooperation Buckling under the Weight of Previous Success
    17.Global Financial Governance: Principles of Reform
    18.Is the WTO deal good news for multilateralism?
    19.The Syrian Crisis and Gridlock of Global Security Governance
    20.European and Global Gridlock: Parallel Barriers to Effective Governance
    21.Climate Change, Migration and the Cosmopolitan Dilemma
    22.Climate Leadership in the Developing World
    23.Europe, the European Union and European Identity
    24.To be, or not to be: Europe Under Siege
    25.The Brexit Dead End
    26.Britain, Riding the Tectonic Plates

    Afterword: Can Western Politics be Revitalised?

    27.Path to Authoritarianism: The Collapse of the Politics of Accommodation
    28.Gold Plated Populism: Trump and the End of the Libe

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGlobal Policy
    Release dateNov 11, 2016
    ISBN9781370645664
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    Global Politics After 9/11: Failed Wars, Political Fragmentation and the Rise of Authoritarianism
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    Global Policy

    Global Policy is an innovative and interdisciplinary journal bringing together world class academics and leading practitioners to analyse both public and private solutions to global problems and issues. It focuses on understanding globally relevant risks and collective action problems; policy challenges that have global impact; and competing and converging discourses about global risks and policy responses. It also includes case studies of policy with clear lessons for other countries and regions; how policy responses, politics and institutions interrelate at the global level; and the conceptual, theoretical and methodological innovations needed to explain and develop policy in these areas.Global Policy will be invaluable to those working in economics, global politics, government, international law, international relations, international political economy, and many other disciplines that contribute to developing global policy. The journal is also designed to inform and engage senior policymakers, private and public corporations, non-governmental organisations, and international bodies. The overall objective is to stimulate deep policy learning, relevant for the academy and for governments and key non-governmental players.Global Policy's Editorial Board comprises a distinguished panel of academics who are supported by an International Advisory Board and a Practitioners' Advisory Board of experts from around the world to ensure the focus remains on pressing and relevant global issues. Global Policy is based at Durham University.

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