Managing Global Issues: Lessons Learned [Paperback]

P. J. Simmons (Author), Chantal de Jonge Oudraat (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 2001

Globalization is pushing to the fore a wide variety of global problems that demand urgent policy attention. Managing Global Issues provides a comprehensive comparative assessment of international efforts to manage global problems. It identifies and explains successes and failures of such efforts, examines the roles of different actors, and outlines lessons that may guide future action by governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector. The volumes 16 case studies examine organized crime, drugs, corruption, human rights, labor rights, health, trade, financial markets, development assistance, the environment, the global commons, communications, weapons of mass destruction, conventional weapons, internal conflicts, and refugees. Managing Global Issues is the result of an international multidisciplinary research team composed of experts in specific global issue areas. The books broad scope, numerous case studies and its rigorous comparative analytical framework offers a unique and valuable contribution to the rapidly growing literature on global governance. Contributors include Vinod K. Aggarwal (University of California, Berkeley), Thomas Bernauer (University of Zrich), William Drake (Carnegie Endowment), Octavio Gmez-Dants (National Institute of Public Health, Mexico), Catherine Gwin (World Bank), Peter M. Haas (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Christopher C. Joyner (Georgetown University), Brian Langille (University of Toronto), Robert E. Litan (Brookings Institution), Kathleen Newland (Carnegie Endowment), Peter Richardson (Transparency International), Peter H. Sand (Institute of International Law, Munich), Dinah L. Shelton (NotreDame Law School), Timothy D. Sisk (University of Denver), Joanna Spear (Kings College, London), and Phil Williams (University of Pittsburgh).

Editorial Reviews

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An enormously valuable contribution...Highly recommended for advanced students and researchers, faculty, and participants in international policy making. -- Choice

Comprehensive coverage of global challenges...quite simply the best guide I've seen to the new world that confronts us. -- John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University

About the Author

Chantal de Jonge Oudraat is associate at the Carnegie Endowment, where she codirects the Managing Global Issues Project. Previously she served as research affiliate at BCSIA, Harvard University and prior to that, as senior research associate at the UN Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva.

P.J. Simmons is associate at the Carnegie Endowment, where he codirects the Managing Global Issues Project. Previously he was founding director of the Environmental Change and Security Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Product Details

• Paperback: 771 pages
• Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (October 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087003183X
• ISBN-13: 978-0870031830
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,230,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Read!, April 9, 2002

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This book is an absolute must-read for a wide range of readers from foreign relations expert to absolute neophyte. As a lay person, I found it extremely readable and accessible. The book offers thought-provoking insights through thoughtfully organized essays and introduced by the authors in such a way that gives the reader a useful context for analysis. A definite 5 star publication!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A usefull book, August 24, 2007

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I used this book 3 years ago when I took a class in Harvard. This books allows me to understand the most important subjects in politics today, and also give me a lot of bibliography, so f I was interested in one of the subjects I could go deeper. I used for my thesis and Is a very good tool to do research I extremly recomended!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keys to the Future, November 9, 2001

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Thomas E. Lovejoy (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

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This book is critically important. Well obvious before September 11, but even more so afterwards, it is clear that we are subject to global problems such as climate change which must be addressed on a global level. National contributions are vital but they must add up to a greater whole.

In a brilliant analysis Simmons and his co-author examine a wide variety on efforts on global issues, identify what has worked and what hasn't.

This is a global civics lesson!

Thomas E. Lovejoy
Chief Biodiversity Advisor, The World Bank
Senior Advisor to the President, the United Nationas Foundation