Rethinking Global Governance: Learning from Long Ignored Societies

This book argues that long-ignored, non-western political systems from the distant and more recent past can provide critical insights into improving global governance.

These societies show how successful collection action can occur by dividing sovereignty, consensus building, power from below, and other mechanisms. For a better tomorrow, we need to free ourselves of the colonial constraints on our political imagination. A pandemic, war in Europe, and another year of climatic anomalies are am...