Global Public Governance is a text written for students, scholars and lay people interested in learning about this global system, which emerged and has evolved in response to global challenges that no one actor can effectively address. Drawing on what has been published over the last several decades, this text highlights the importance of states and nonstate actors seeking to provide global public goods through collective action. Covering conceptual, theoretical, and empirical issues, as well as eight main themes — global security, human rights, global criminal justice, global health, global education, global finance, global trade, and the global environment — this text offers a comprehensive treatment of global public governance. It concludes that the current system remains far from effective, but world government is not a better alternative. In short, this text proposes a regional approach to global public governance.

Contents:

• 
  

  Foreword

  
  


• 
  

  Preface

  
  


• 
  

  About the Author

  
  


• 
  

  Introduction: Studying Global Public Governance

  
  


• 
  

  Historical, Conceptual, and Theoretical Issues:

  
  
  
  
  • What Global Public Governance Is
  
  
  • Globalization, Subsystems, and Global Authority
  
  
  • Theoretical Traditions and Perspectives in a Nutshell
  
  
  
  


• 
  

  The Security and Legal Dimensions:

  
  
  
  
  • Global Security Governance
  
  
  • Global Human Rights Governance
  
  
  • Global Criminal Justice Governance
  
  
  
  


• 
  

  The Social and Cultural Dimensions:

  
  
  
  
  • Global Health Governance
  
  
  • Global Education Governance
  
  
  
  


• 
  

  The Economic and Environmental Dimensions:

  
  
  
  
  • Global Finance Governance
  
  
  • Global Trade Governance
  
  
  • Global Environment Governance
  
  
  
  


• 
  

  Conclusion: Toward World Government? Potential Benefits and Drawbacks

  
  


• 
  

  Bibliography

  
  


• 
  

  Index

  
  

Readership: The text can be used for both undergraduate and early graduate studies, doctoral students will also find the book beneficial in many ways.

Key Features:

• This book is unique in terms of its emphasis on global public governance broadly defined as a global system based on the idea of addressing global challenges through the provision of global public goods based on collective action


• The book deals with conceptual, theoretical, and empirical issues related to global issues, most notably global security, human rights, global criminal justice, global health, global education, global finance, global trade, and the global environment. Although the various global public goods are underprovided, the book argues that world government is unlikely to perform better


• In fact, a super state is likely to do less well than the current global system. What needs to be seriously considered is the proposal that global public governance based on a regional approach looks more promising