Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership
This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from North and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership is situated historically within t...
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New York ; Tokyo
Cambridge University Press
20.10.2011
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| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9781107674967, 1107014786, 9781107014787, 1107674964 |
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Table of Contents:
- From knowledge to norms to policy to implementation: a lost cause? -- A concluding note on horizons of desire -- 6 The emerging global freshwater crisis and the privatization of global leadership -- Summary -- Introduction: freshwater scarcity -- The shifting focus of international water law and practice -- Who controls the water market? -- Who sets global water policy? -- Access to water? Human rights law and environmental law -- Conclusion -- Part III Global Leadership Ethics, Crises and Subaltern Forces -- 8 Global leadership and the Islamic world: crisis, contention and challenge -- Summary -- Introduction -- Perilous orthodoxy -- Islamic discourses and the crisis of leadership -- Conclusion -- 9 Public and insurgent reason: adjudicatory leadership in a hyper-globalizing world -- Summary -- Introduction: towards a theory of adjudicatory leadership -- Extra-curial adjudicatory leadership forms -- Adjudicatory leadership as a site of management practices -- Transformative/visionary conceptions of adjudicatory leadership -- Public reason and insurgent reason -- Adjudicatory leadership and political leadership -- 7 Global leadership, ethics and global health: the search for new paradigms -- Summary -- Introduction -- A critique of some of the values that underpin our current paradigm -- Expanding the discourses on ethics and human rights -- The way forward for global health ethics: five transformational approaches -- Developing a global state of mind -- Promoting long-term collective self-interest -- Achieving widespread access to public goods -- Shifting paradigms -- From laissez-faire capitalism and authoritarian socialism to `globalization´ -- From rights to `rights and responsibilities´ -- From the anomic self to the 'embedded self' -- From `might is right´ to `right is might´ -- From realism to 'pluralism and solidarity'
- From the acceptability of weapons of mass destruction to their `illegality´ -- New perspectives on global health care -- A new conception of development -- From endless economic growth to `growth that facilitates equity´ -- Conclusion -- Part IV Prospects for Alternative Forms of Global Leadership -- 10 Global democratization without hierarchy or leadership? The World Social Forum in the capitalist world -- Summary -- Introduction -- Prefigurative and strategic dimensions of leadership -- The World Social Forum and global democratization -- Confronting economism outside and inside the World Social Forum -- Enlightened tyranny of structurelessness -- Can an open space generate action? -- Towards possible worlds -- 11 After neoliberalism: left versus right projects of leadership in the global crisis -- Summary -- Introduction: capitalism and political sociology -- Social classes, hegemonic struggles and the middle-class question -- From neoliberal hegemony to the `big´ crisis -- Erosion of social democracy and conservatism and growing right-wing populism -- After the big crisis? -- 12 Crises, social forces and the future of global governance: implications for progressive strategy -- Summary -- Introduction -- Neoliberal crises and progressive strategy -- Theorizing liberal views on globalization -- Theorizing progressive views on globalization -- Conclusion: from global strategy to national tactics -- 13 Organic crisis, global leadership and progressive alternatives -- Summary -- Introduction: capitalism, crisis and leadership -- Morbid symptoms and original accumulation -- Green capitalism? -- A return to normalcy? -- What is to be done? Progressive leadership and the organic crisis -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
- 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