Rising Powers and Global Governance: Changes and Challenges for the World's Nations
This book reinforces the need to understand the sources of global change that is taking place and to accommodate it in the world political, social, and economic systems. Linking the United States, China, India, and Russia along with Europe and the Middle East, the author addresses demographics, international trade, technology, and climate change as global challenges that require cooperation in order to be solved. Both academics and policymakers will be enlightened, discovering ways of addressing global change by working together rather than through confrontation.
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Rising Powers and Global Governance: Changes and Challenges for the World's Nations
This book reinforces the need to understand the sources of global change that is taking place and to accommodate it in the world political, social, and economic systems. Linking the United States, China, India, and Russia along with Europe and the Middle East, the author addresses demographics, international trade, technology, and climate change as global challenges that require cooperation in order to be solved. Both academics and policymakers will be enlightened, discovering ways of addressing global change by working together rather than through confrontation.
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Rising Powers and Global Governance: Changes and Challenges for the World's Nations

Rising Powers and Global Governance: Changes and Challenges for the World's Nations

by Shahid Javed Burki
Rising Powers and Global Governance: Changes and Challenges for the World's Nations

Rising Powers and Global Governance: Changes and Challenges for the World's Nations

by Shahid Javed Burki

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Overview

This book reinforces the need to understand the sources of global change that is taking place and to accommodate it in the world political, social, and economic systems. Linking the United States, China, India, and Russia along with Europe and the Middle East, the author addresses demographics, international trade, technology, and climate change as global challenges that require cooperation in order to be solved. Both academics and policymakers will be enlightened, discovering ways of addressing global change by working together rather than through confrontation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137598158
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 10/31/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 299
File size: 570 KB

About the Author

Shahid Javed Burki is a former Vice President of the World Bank and Finance Minister in Pakistan.  He is the author of twenty books on development issues, covering China, Latin America, Pakistan, and South Asia. 

Table of Contents

1.Global Change and its Consequences
2. A Receding America? 

3. Rising China

4. Rising India 

5. Russia:  A Revanchist State

6. The Afghan Conundrum

7. Iran’s Reentry into the World

8. The Rise of Extremist Islam 

9. Europe under Stress

10. Demographic Changes 

11. Trade: A Major Driver of Global Growth and Integration

12. Climate Change and its Consequences

13. Technology and Development

14. The Final Word: Broken Countries and Breaking Systems 

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