This interdisciplinary book investigates the problematization of global challenges in world politics by analyzing what they are and how they come to be.
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 constructionuniversalizing, bundling, upscaling, and creating urgencythis 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.
Recenzijas
In a world in which talk of global challenges abounds, inquiring into how these are constructed is necessary to understand how global authority structures are legitimized. The many rich contributions to this volume show how the notion of global challenges represents a new mode of constructing objectivity by blending a sense of urgency and claims to universality together in areas where ongoing struggles for power and meaning in world politics intersect. Innovative and sophisticated, this volume should appeal to anyone interested in the hidden dynamics of power in world politics and global governance.
Jens Bartelson, Lund University, Sweden
German conceptual historian Reinhard Koselleck tells us that our future horizon is now filled by emergent crises rather than by hope of progress. Constructing Global Challenges in World Politics provides a thorough discussion of how stuff goes from being taken for granted to being global challenges, to being crises if left unsolved. Some will find it useful as an empirical exposure of hype, others as an abject lesson in how social construction actually works.
Iver B. Neumann, author of Governing the Global Polity
This engaging interdisciplinary volume breaks new ground by revealing how a multiplicity of actors engage in processes of universalizing, bundling, upscaling and creating urgency to achieve the improbable: the construction of a global challenge.
Sigrid Quack, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and co-editor of Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation
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 Discourses 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 changeGlocalizing governance Part 5: Global Challenges
and International Organizations
9. Securitization, Expansion, Integration:
Tracing Shifts in the UNs 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
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.
