Format:
1 online resource (318 pages)
ISBN:
9781139186223
Content:
A compelling theorization of global leadership and global crises, with reflections on prospects for more effective and legitimate global governance.
Content:
Cover -- Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: global crises and the crisis of global leadership -- A crisis of neoliberalism? -- Questions and issues addressed -- Lineages and concepts -- Global leadership and the making of history -- Contents and organization of the book -- Part 1 Concepts of Global Leadership and Dominant Strategies -- 1 Leaders and led in an era of global crises -- Summary -- Introduction -- Perspectives on crisis, leadership and our present predicament -- Leadership by experts? -- The ethics and politics of progressive global leadership -- 2 Leadership, neoliberal governance and global economic crisis: a Gramscian analysis -- Summary -- Introduction -- Gramscis conception of leadership1 -- The context for leadership today: the neoliberal moment -- Conclusion: leadership in the context of neoliberal crisis -- 3 Private transnational governance and the crisis of global leadership -- Summary -- Introduction -- Private transnational governance and leadership in the global political economy -- Who let the fox guard the hen house? -- Pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will -- Part II Changing Material Conditions of Existence and Global Leadership: Energy, Climate Change and Water -- 4 The crisis of petro-market civilization: the past as prologue? -- Summary -- Introduction -- A brief genealogy of petro-market civilization -- The consequences of petro-market civilization -- Neoliberal governmentality -- Conclusion: neoliberalism will not save us -- 5 Global climate change, human security and the future of democracy -- Summary -- Introduction -- Climate change and the limits of statism: the Copenhagen moment -- Constructing the normative architecture for climate change.
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Machine generated contents note: Part I. Concepts of Global Leadership and Dominant Strategies: 1. Leaders and led in an era of global crises Stephen Gill; 2. Leadership, neoliberal governance and global economic crisis: a Gramscian analysis Nicola Short; 3. Private transnational governance and the crisis of global leadership A. Claire Cutler; Part II. Changing Material Conditions of Existence and Global Leadership - Energy, Climate Change and Water: 4. The crisis of petro-market civilization - the past as prologue? Tim Di Muzio; 5. Global climate change, human security, and the future of democracy Richard A. Falk; 6. The emerging global freshwater crisis and the privatization of global leadership Hilal Elver; Part III. Global Leadership Ethics, Crises and Subaltern Forces: 7. Global leadership, ethics and global health - the search for new paradigms Solomon R. Benatar; 8. Global leadership and the Islamic world - crisis, contention and challenge Mustapha Kamal Pasha; 9. Public and insurgent reason - adjudicatory leadership in a hyper-globalizing world Upendra Baxi; Part IV. Prospects for Alternative Forms of Global Leadership: 10. Global democratization without hierarchy or leadership? The world social forum in the capitalist world Teivo Teivainen; 11. After neoliberalism - left versus right projects of leadership in the global crisis Ingar Solty; 12. Crises, social forces and the future of global governance - implications for progressive strategy Adam Harmes; 13. Organic crisis, global leadership and progressive alternatives Stephen Gill.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107014787
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107014787
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=807358
