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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Quest for Security makes for a fascinating read, made all the more timely by the current outcry-across the country and beyond-over the unequal distribution of the pains and gains from the economic changes of recent years. The book examines globalization as the multidimensional phenomenon that it is, without complexifying it to the point where the key issues become obscured. It is an important book that offers both an introduction to key issues in global governance to a general audience and advances the debate among expert scholars and policymakers with serious, constructive proposals for making economic globalization politically sustainable by improving average citizens' economic, physical, and environmental security. -- Tim Buthe, Duke University This book takes the many and varied challenges facing the world, from the financial crisis to global warming, and explores how new forms of governance and cooperation can be developed to solve some of them or at least mitigate their effects. This book is original and pathbreaking, and its contributors are at the forefront of thinking about these questions. -- Andrew Gamble, Cambridge University Our interdependent but uncoordinated world, in which we are often at loggerheads with each other, generates many different problems. In an insightful collection of contributions led by Mary Kaldor and Joseph E. Stiglitz, this wonderful book offers constructive ways of avoiding disaster with the help of global cooperation. A great book for our time. -- Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist and Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University At a time when most initiatives to reinvigorate the multilateral system and its provision of global public goods are failing, it is encouraging to read the analyses and proposals contained in this volume. The key message of this excellent collection is reassuring: that the governance predicaments posed by globalization are solvable after all; the intellectual battle is not lost and it is still possible, with workable propositions, to win the political one in order to build a better international system. With strong conviction, I buy the argument. -- Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former president of Mexico This important book offers new thinking for exceptional times. It draws fascinating parallels between what is happening in the fields of economics, security, and the environment and demonstrates why and how global solutions are the answer to the current interlinked crises. -- Javier Solana, former secretary-general of NATO The Quest for Security is one of the most comprehensive assessments of globalization's challenges published to date. From mounting income inequality to the destructive power of climate change to the threat of terrorist attacks, this timely compilation of expert insight deftly exposes where global governance has failed and offers pragmatic solutions for building a secure, sustainable, and just post-crisis world. -- George Papandreou, former prime minister of Greece and president of Socialist International This is a near-perfect text for contemporary graduate courses outside any disciplinary 'box.' Journal of Global Faultlines
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Editors' Note Introduction Mary Kaldor and Joseph E. Stiglitz Part 1: Social Protection Without Protectionism Introduction 1. Social Protection Without Protectionism, by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2. Scandinavian Equality: A Prime Example of Protection Without Protectionism, by Karl Ove Moene 3. Further Considerations on Social Protection, by Kemal Dervis, Leif Pagrotsky, George Soros Part 2: Protection from Violence Introduction 4. Global Security Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century, by G. John Ikenberry 5. Restructuring Global Security for the Twenty-First Century, by Mary Kaldor 6. Recent Developments in Global Criminal Industries, by Misha Glenny Part 3: Environmental Protection Introduction 7. Sharing the Burden of Saving the Planet: Global Social Justice for Sustainable Development Lessons from the Theory of Public Finance, by Joseph E. Stiglitz Appendixes to Chapter 7 8. Designing the Post-Kyoto Climate Regime, by Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins Part 4: Urbanizing the Challenges of Global Governance Introduction 9. A Focus on Cities Takes Us Beyond Existing Governance Frameworks, by Saskia Sassen 10. Violence in the City: Challenges of Global Governance, by Sophie Body-Gendrot 11. Cities and Conflict Resolution, by Tony Travers 12. Cities and Global Climate Governance: From Passive Implementers to Active Co-Decision-Makers, by Kristine Kern and Arthur P. J. Mol Part 5: Global Governance Introduction 13. Rethinking Global Economic and Social Governance, by Jose Antonio Ocampo 14. The G20 and Global Governance, by Ngaire Woods 15. Transforming Global Governance? Structural Deficits and Recent Developments in Security and Finance, by David Held and Kevin Young Contributors' Notes
