
Addressing the Grand Challenges of Planetary Governance
The Future of the Global Political Order
Oran R. Young(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 9. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
74 pages
978-1-009-27247-6 (ISBN)
Description
The world today confronts unprecedented needs for governance having profound implications for human well-being that are difficult - perhaps impossible - to address effectively within the prevailing global political order. This makes it pertinent to ask whether we must assume that the global order will continue during the foreseeable future to take the form of a state-based society as we think about options for addressing these challenges. Treating political orders as complex systems and drawing on our understanding of the dynamics of such systems, the author explores the prospects for a critical transition in the prevailing global political order. Individual sections analyze constitutive pressures, systemic forces, tipping elements, the effects of scale, the defining characteristics of potential successors to the current order, and pathways to a new order. In the process, seeking to make a more general contribution to our understanding of critical transitions in large political orders.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
118 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-27247-6 (9781009272476)
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The Future of the Global Political Order
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Content
1. Critical transitions in political orders; 2. Political orders as complex systems; 3. Constitutive pressures; 4. Systemic forces; 5. Political tipping elements; 6. The effects of scale; 7. The global political order of the future; 8. Pathways to a new order.