Constructing Global Challenges in World Politics

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-59088-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies on Challenges, Crises and Dissent in World Politics

This interdisciplinary book investigates the problematization of global challenges in world politics by analyzing what they are and how they come to be.

Offering a conceptual framework, including four modes of construction—universalizing, bundling, upscaling, and creating urgency—this book provides a heuristic method for understanding how the process of rendering an issue a “global challenge” unfolds. It examines the role of the global challenges discourse, which may either reinforce or challenge the dominant orders of world politics, such as the capitalist market-based system and the liberal international order. As a consequence, the global challenges discourse facilitates the emergence of new actors and policy fields.

The book will be of interest to students, academics, and practitioners of global governance, international organizations, and, more broadly, international political economy and international relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Isakova, Alina

Neuwinger, Malte

Schulze Waltrup, Robin

Uraiqat, Oday

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Introduction  1. Global Challenges in World Politics and Their Modes of Construction  Part 2: Global Challenges avant la lettre: Historical Accounts  2. “Unequal Treaties”: Challenging International Order in the 1920s  3. “Japan” and the Global Challenge of Modernity. Constellations of Social-Scientific Discourses on Modernity in the Twentieth Century  Part 3: Global Challenges in the Discursive Arena  4. Practices of Global Challenging: A Historical Perspective and Preliminary Typology  5. Talking the Challenges Talk: Understanding the Global Challenges Discourse’s Multiple Meanings, or Lack Thereof  Part 4: Global Challenges, Nation-States and Multilevel Governance  6. States’ Framing of Mass Atrocity Crimes: From Introducing to Preserving the Responsibility to Protect  7. Constructing the Challenge of Governance in the Arctic: Colonial, Alliance, and Global Concerns across Time  8. Upscaling climate change—Glocalizing governance  Part 5: Global Challenges and International Organizations  9. Securitization, Expansion, Integration: Tracing Shifts in the UN’s Governance of Terrorism and Violent Extremism as a “Global Challenge”  10. International Organizations and the Construction of Complex Global Security Challenges  11. The OECD, Global Challenges, and Contestation of the Economic Growth Paradigm  12. Global Challenges and Opportunities? Active Aging, Intergenerational Solidarity, and the Informal Care Nexus  Part 6: Conclusion  13. Global Challenges, Global Contestations, and the Reproduction of Global Orders

Über Autor(innen)

Alina Isakova is a doctoral researcher with the Research Training Group “World Politics” at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Malte Neuwinger is a doctoral researcher with the Research Training Group “World Politics” at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Robin Schulze Waltrup is a postdoctoral researcher with the Research Training Group “World Politics” at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Oday Uraiqat is a doctoral researcher with the Research Training Group “World Politics” at Bielefeld University, Germany.