Clumsy Solutions for a Wicked World: How to Improve Global Governance

by Marco Verweij

Overview

This follow-up to Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World (Palgrave, 2006) seeks to understand why even well-intended efforts to resolve pressing international and global problems so often appear to fail spectacularly and what can be done to remedy this. The author analyzes four of the biggest global governance failures of the last few decades.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230300828
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/26/2011
Series:	Global Issues
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	271
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

STEVEN NEY Professor of Policy Studies at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany MICHAEL THOMPSON Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria CRISTINA GRECULESCU Jacobs University's Registrar's Office, Germany

Table of Contents

How to Curb Global Warming When It May or May Not Be Occurring Clumsy Solutions for a Wicked World; with S.Ney & M.Thompson Health for Very Few: The Resurgence of Malaria; with C.Greculescu Biased into Baghdad: The Failure of the Iraq War They May Be Génocidaires But At Least They Are Our Génocidaires: The Role of France in Rwanda Making Global Governance Clumsier (after an Excursion to the Rhine) Appendix A: A Clumsy Conclusion to the 'Great Debates' in the Study of International Relations Appendix B: A Note on Method