Global Governance Futures

Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching the middle of the twenty-first century by exploring today's most pressing and enduring health, social, ecological, economic, and political challenges. Each of the expert contributors considers the drivers of continuity and change within systems of governance and how actors, agents, mechanisms, and resources are and could be mobilized.

The aim is not merely to understand state, intergovernmental, and non-state actors. It is also to draw attention to those underappreciated aspects of global governance that push understanding beyond strictures of traditional conceptualizations and offer better insights into the future of world order.

The book's three parts enable readers to appreciate better the sum of forces likely to shape world order in the near and not-so-near future:

• "Planetary" encompasses changes wrought by continuing human domination of the earth
  war
  current and future geopolitical, civilizational, and regional contestations
  and life in and between urban and non-urban environments.
• "Divides" includes threats to human rights gains
  the plight of migrants
  those who have and those who do not
  persistent racial, gender, religious, and sexualorientation-based discrimination
  and those who govern and those who are governed.
• "Challenges" involves food and health insecurities
  ongoing environmental degradation and species loss
  the current and future politics of international assistance and data
  and the wrong turns taken in the control of illicit drugs and crime.

Designed to engage advanced undergraduate and graduate students in international relations, organization, law, and political economy as well as a general audience, this book invites readers to adopt both a backward- and forward-looking view of global governance. It will spark discussion and debate as to how dystopic futures might be avoided and change agents mobilized.