Governing the World?: Cases in Global Governance by Harman, Sophie New<-

Governing the World?Cases in Global Governance\nAuthor(s): Sophie Harman, David Williams\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415690416, 978-0415690416\nSynopsis\nGlobal governance has become a key concept in the contemporary study of international politics, yet what the term means and how it works remains in question.\n\nGoverning the World: Cases in Global Governance takes an alternative approach to understanding the concept by exploring how global governance works in practice through a set of case studies on both classical issues of international relations such as security, labour and trade, and more contemporary concerns such as the environment, international development, and governing the internet. \n\nThe book explores the processes, practice and politics of global governance by taking a broad look at issues of human rights governance and focusing on detailed aspects of a topic such as torture and rendition to.