Global Governance: Why? What? Whither?

by Thomas G. Weiss

Book Overview

Friends 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?

This probing yet accessible book examines "global governance" or the sum of the informal and formal values, norms, procedures, and institutions that help states, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, and transnational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745660460
• ISBN13: 9780745660462
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"