Description:
Response to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to global governance. Environment, global security and ethnicity and nationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the political and social dimensions of the crisis, contributors examine changes in relationships between the world's richer and poorer countries, efforts to strengthen global institutions, and difficulties facing states trying to create stability for their citizens.
Contributors include: William Barnes, Rogers Brubaker, Vincent Della Sala, Nils Gilman, David Held, Mary Kaldor, Adrian Pabst, Ravi Sundaram, Vadim Volkov, Michael Watts, and Kevin Young.
The Deepening Crisis is the second part of a trilogy comprised of the first three books in the Possible Future series.
Volume 2: The Deepening Crisis
Volume 3: Aftermath The three volumes are linked by a common introduction and can be purchased individually or as a set.
Brief description: Georgi Derluguian is Associate Professor of International Studies and Sociology at Northwestern University and is the author of Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography.
Review Quotes: "Calhoun and Derluguians edited collection is the second volume of a two-part series that interrogates how the financial crisis exacerbated problems in regimes of global governance. Chief among the editors considerations is how the crisis threatens to & derail action on environmental concerns (p. 7). Leading the inquiry is the questions: will states work to create international regulatory systems as a framework for a new world order, or will they be locked into new patterns of global conflict? Contributors to The Deepening Crisis: Governance Challenges After Neoliberalism fashion responses by taking to task the nature of governance in the context of ecological politics, religion, ethnicity, offshoring, the European Union, and media piracy."-- "Critical Sociology"