Overview
Over the past several decades, the world political structure has been transformed from one based on nation-states interacting within an international system to one of regions, corporations, and social forces engaged within a glob alized system of governance. Global and regional problems, including but not limited to economic crises, environmental catastrophes and political debacles have not been alleviated by governmental mechanisms largely organized around states, while governmental regulation, both domestically and internationally, is in great flux. It is broadly acknowledged that effective, transnational regulation is needed to address these problems, but no formula has been devised to successfully combine state structures and international authorities. The relative decline of the nation-state as the site of regulatory power and welfare provision has not been addressed by equivalent international institutions, even as the political structuring of markets has become more extensive. Efforts to reform organizations such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization have made little headway, especially in the face of American power and unilateralism. Globalization, States and Governance seeks to better understand the impacts of globalization on the nationstate and international institutions, to address the need for new regulatory regimes and, most critically, to formulate practical policy prescriptions that foster and facilitate new global political structures and institutional arrangements
Projects
- The UC Atlas of Global Inequality is an on-line interactive web s an on-line interactive web site. The Atlas explores the interaction between global integration (globalization) and inequality, and provides maps, graphics and data primarily for use by students and teachers in the University of California. Contact: Ben Crow, bencrow@ucsc.edu
- Stevenson Program on Global Security (IGCC campus program), Director: Ben Crow, Sociology). Linked to the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at UC-San Diego, the Stevenson Program sponsors research, education, and outreach on issues relating to human welfare and global security.Contact: Ben Crow, bencrow@ucsc.edu
- Securing the Global Future, is a new project with the goal of assessing global security and human welfare in light of the need for a transition to a sustainable society. This project will examine the interactions of three areas of human endeavor: politics, economy, and environment. Contact Ronnie Lipschutz (rlipsch@ucsc.edu).
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