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FutureSchool: How Schools Around the World are Applying Learning Design Principles For a New Era
by Julie Temperley Valerie HannonWhat will the schools of the future look like? What will guide their design, and what is happening now to create them? As we enter the age of disruption and hyperchange, it has become increasingly clear that our education systems are not adequate to the task of enabling young people to thrive in a very different future. FutureSchool offers system leaders, principals, and teachers research-based design principles upon which the evolution of schools might be based. Shaped by an awareness of changing economies, technology, and the climate emergency, it suggests specific ways that leaders can address the challenges of moving forward, grasping the opportunities presented by the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. Presenting six ‘archetypes for the future’ – key missions that are central to the future of humanity – it offers inspiring examples of practice that are not just theoretical but well-advanced in schools across the world, practice that is grounded in principles that are central to a new learning paradigm. This book offers an answer and presents a vision that is engaging, inspiring, and intent on enabling success for all learners. This book will provide inspiration and practical guidance for leaders, teachers, and parents who want to see schools rapidly evolve to become the institutions we really need.
Futureproof City: Ten Immediate Paths to Urban Resilience
by Barry D. WilsonThe Futureproof City creates adaptability and resiliency in the face of the unknown challenges resulting from technological change, population explosion, global pandemic, and environmental crisis. A paradigm shift is urgently required in the means of conceiving, delivering, and managing city development to create better places to live. This book brings to the fore many new solutions currently being proposed and piloted globally, identifying ten key areas affecting the physical fabric of our cities where governments, planners, investors, and the individuals responsible for shaping lives can refocus their understanding, priorities, and funding in order to more effectively utilise the limited financial, natural, and time resources available. It will be key reading for every policy maker and professional working in sustainability, development, technology, health and welfare, investment, and risk issues in cities today.
Futureproof: How to Build Resilience in an Uncertain World
by Jon CoaffeeA compelling and definitive account of why we need to radically rethink our approach to dealing with catastrophic events Catastrophic events such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tohoku "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that hit the eastern seaboard of Japan in 2012 are seen as surprises that have a low probability of occurring but have a debilitating impact when they do. In this eye-opening journey through modern and ancient risk management practices, Jon Coaffee explains why we need to find a new way to navigate the deeply uncertain world that we live in. Examining how governments have responded to terrorist threats, climate change, and natural hazards, Coaffee shows how and why these measures have proven inadequate and what should be done to make us more resilient. While conventional approaches have focused on planning and preparing for disruptions and enhanced our ability to "bounce back," our focus should be on anticipating future challenges and enhancing our capacity to adapt to new threats.
Futures Research and Environmental Sustainability: Theory and Method
by James K. LeinThis book explores the challenges of presenting sustainability as a more actionable or practical concept and identifying approaches that might offer useful assistance in addressing the temporal and spatial representation of sustainability. The underlying premise of this book is that sustainability is a state realized in the future. In that future there is a geographic arrangement of society and economy that agrees with its environmental setting. This future perspective introduces a little examined subject area that can lend significant content to the sustainability challenge: Futures Research.
Futures and Fictions
by Simon O'Sullivan Henriette Gunkell Ayesha HameedFutures and Fictions is a book of essays and conversations that explore possibilities for a different ‘political imaginary’ or, more simply, the imagining and imaging of alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against the impasses of our neoliberal present. In particular, the book contributes to prescient discussions around decolonization, post-capitalism and new kinds of social movements – exploring the intersections of these with contemporary art practice and visual culture. Contributions range from work on science, sonic and financial fictions and alternative space-time plots to myths and images generated by marginalized and ‘minor’ communities, queer-feminist strategies of fictioning, and the production of new Afro- and other futurisms.
Futures of Black Radicalism
by Gaye Theresa Johnson Alex LubinWith racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalismBlack rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and campuses; there is renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here, key intellectuals—inspired by the new movements and by the seminal work of the scholar Cedric J. Robinson—recall the powerful tradition of Black radicalism while defining new directions for the activists and thinkers it inspires. In a time when activists in Ferguson, Palestine, Baltimore, and Hong Kong immediately connect across vast distances, this book makes clear that new Black radical politics is thoroughly internationalist and redraws the links between Black resistance and anti-capitalism. Featuring the key voices in this new intellectual wave, this collection outlines one of the most vibrant areas of thought today. With contributions from Greg Burris, Jordan T. Camp, Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Avery F. Gordon, Stefano Harney, Christina Heatherton, Robin D.G. Kelley, George Lipsitz, Fred Moten, Paul Ortiz, Steven Osuna, Kwame M. Phillips, Shana L. Redmond, Cedric J. Robinson, Elizabeth P. Robinson, Nikhil Pal Singh, Damien M. Sojoyner, Darryl C. Thomas, and Françoise Vergès.
Futures of Socialism: The Pandemic and the Post-Corbyn Era
by Grace BlakeleyHow should the left respond to electoral defeat, the leadership of Keir Starmer and a global crisis?British politics is in an extraordinary place. Grace Blakeley introduces an indispensable collection of analysis and comment. In Futures of Socialism, Sam Gindin and James Meadway reassess socialist strategy after the coronavirus; Dalia Gebrial and Siân Errington debate austerity and precarity; Joshua Virasami and Simukai Chigudu explore anti-racism and the legacy of Empire; and Leo Panitch and Momentum co-founder James Schneider probe the limits of parliamentary socialism. Chris Saltmarsh assesses the prospects for an eco-socialist Green New Deal and Cat Hobbs argues for the ongoing centrality of public ownership to socialist policy. Futures of Socialism takes an in-depth look at the reasons for Labour&’s 2019 election defeat, with Unite&’s Andrew Murray on Labour&’s Brexit position, Tom Mills on the British media, Gargi Bhattacharyya and Jeremy Gilbert on better ways to build a political project, and Keir Milburn on generation left. The anthology also compares the fortunes of the British left with socialist movements overseas, in despatches from Europe and America. Blakeley draws on the talents of all sections of the post-Corbyn left to survey the prospects of &“a movement that has dominated the horizons of our lives.&”
Futures of the Western Balkans: Fragmentation and Integration in the Region and Beyond (SpringerBriefs in Political Science)
by Marco ZoppiThis Brief provides a survey of key political, social, and economic issues affecting the Western Balkans region. Taking a two-pronged conceptual approach focusing on fragmentation and integration, the volume highlights commonalities and differences in a number of simultaneous dynamics currently characterizing the region: Europeanization and EU access, market integration, and migration and socio-demographic transformations. Stressing the interconnectedness of these issues, the volume synthesizes key questions for the future of the region, such as the relationship between socio-demographic trends and economic development, the effects of depopulation on further EU integration, and the economic and political repercussions of enhanced intra-regional trade. Explicitly interdisciplinary, this Brief will be useful for researchers and students specializing in the Balkans and Western Balkans, post-socialist countries, European affairs, enlargement, foreign policy, international relations, regional studies, economics, economic transition, and socio-demographics.
Fuzzy Math: The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan
by Paul Krugman"This book puts Paul Krugman's analysis, and powers of explanation firmly at the center of the debate about what to do with more than $5 trillion." "The United States will soon decide how to spend what is forecast as a $5.6 trillion surplus. President George W. Bush has already sent his proposed tax cuts to Congress. Democrats have countered with their own initiatives. The question of whether to enact tax cuts has shifted to when? and by how much?" "This book, dissects the Bush and other tax proposals and shows us who wins, who loses, and how quickly the tax cuts will consume the surplus."--BOOK JACKET.
Fuzzy Planning: The Role of Actors in a Fuzzy Governance Environment
by Gert de Roo Geoff PorterMany of the key notions associated with spatial planning are essentially ’fuzzy’ in their nature. For example, while almost everyone accepts ’sustainability’ as an important goal of planning, the actions of the actors involved can render the achieved ’sustainability’ minimal, or even counterproductive. Putting forward an innovative way of looking at planning problems and policies, this volume suggests actor-consulting is important in addressing the fuzzy nature of planning. A tool to address differences in understanding, actor-consulting is based on an analysis of actor motives, perceptions and contributions. By inviting all actors to express their desired, actual and potential contributions to achieving an agreed outcome to a local policy issue, decision-makers have a means to develop their goals in line with the roles, motivation, perception and behaviour of the various actors involved. Including contributions from Patsy Healy, Johan Woltjer, Don Miller and Karel Martens, the book presents a variety of case studies which demonstrate the use of the actor-consulting model in addressing planning issues.
Fuzzy Social Choice Models
by Peter C. Casey Michael B. Gibilisco Carly A. Goodman Kelly Nelson Pook John N. Mordeson Mark J. Wierman Terry D. ClarkThis book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set of alternatives from which collective choices are made. The book presents empirical findings achieved by the authors in their efforts to predict the outcome of government formation processes in European parliamentary and semi-presidential systems Using data from the Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP), the authors propose a new approach that reinterprets error in the coding of CMP data as ambiguity in the actual political positions of parties on the policy dimensions being coded. The range of this error establishes parties' fuzzy preferences. The set of possible outcomes in the process of government formation is then calculated on the basis of both the fuzzy Pareto set and the fuzzy maximal set, and the predictions are compared with those made by two conventional approaches as well as with the government that was actually formed. The comparison shows that, in most cases, the fuzzy approaches outperform their conventional counterparts.
Fußballpolitiken: Zur Aushandlung von Macht innerhalb und außerhalb des Stadions (essentials)
by Cyprian PiskurekDieses Buch widerlegt die oftmals geäußerte Behauptung, dass der Fußballsport im Grunde unpolitisch sei. In drei kurzen Kapiteln beschreibt der Verfasser, wie der Fußball in den vergangenen Jahren nicht nur regelmäßig (wie bei der Diskussion um die WM in Katar) in Diskurse globaler Politik involviert war, sondern wie auch innerhalb des Sports in verschiedenen Prozessen Macht und Bedeutungen ausgehandelt werden.
Führen in Hochschulen
by Luzia TrunigerDieses Buch bietet Führungspersonen an Hochschulen handlungsrelevantes Wissen aus der Hochschulforschung, der Organisations- und Managementforschung sowie der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie. Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler wie auch Persönlichkeiten der Hochschulführung und der Hochschulberatung erörtern aktuelle Entwicklungen, eröffnen Einblicke in die Besonderheiten von Leadership und Management in Hochschulen und geben wertvolle Anregungen für die Umsetzung in die Führungspraxis. Es werden konkrete Herangehensweisen und Methoden dargelegt sowie Herausforderungen, gelungene Interventionen, Erfahrungen und Lösungsansätze diskutiert.
Führen von Einsatzorganisationen in der Chaosphase: Wie die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Polizei, Feuerwehr, Rettungsdienst und Spezialkräften gelingt
by Raphael RöttingerWie kontrolliert man das Unkontrollierbare? Dieses Buch zeigt, wie die Führung und Zusammenarbeit von Polizei, Feuerwehr, Rettungsdiensten und Spezialeinheiten in der Chaosphase gelingen kann. Diese Phase ist geprägt von Unübersichtlichkeit und der Notwendigkeit, unter enormem Zeit- und Handlungsdruck Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit zu treffen. Professionelle Führung und Zusammenarbeit sind der Schlüssel, um das Chaos zu beherrschen und geordnete Strukturen zu etablieren.Raphael Röttinger bietet theoretisch fundierte Ansätze und praxisnahe Lösungen, um diesen Herausforderungen zu begegnen. Er analysiert die Merkmale und Konzepte von Katastrophen, Großschadenslagen und Anschlägen und beleuchtet die aktuelle Bedrohungslage der inneren und äußeren Sicherheit in Deutschland. Der Autor untersucht die Einsatzziele, -grundsätze und Ressourcen von Feuerwehr, Rettungsdienst, Technischem Hilfswerk (THW), Notfallseelsorge und Polizei im Kontext von Großschadenslagen. Aufbauend darauf bietet das Buch Handlungsempfehlungen, die helfen, Führung in chaotischen Situationen effektiv zu gestalten. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf der Schnittstellenproblematik zwischen den verschiedenen Organisationen, insbesondere in den Bereichen taktische Medizin, Raumplanung, Einsatzleitung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Zusätzlich werden spezifische Herausforderungen wie CBRNE-Bedrohungen, komplexe Anschlagsszenarien und Großveranstaltungen wie Fußballspiele analysiert und durch praktische Lösungsansätze sowie Lehren aus realen Einsätzen ergänzt. Das Buch richtet sich an Mitarbeitende von Behörden und Organisationen mit Sicherheitsaufgaben und Entscheidungsträger, die Ansätze zur Bewältigung von Großschadenslagen suchen. Es bietet wertvolle Einblicke für den effektiven Umgang mit extremen Situationen und die Zusammenarbeit von Einsatzorganisationen in der Chaosphase.
Führung und innere Kündigung in der Polizei: Wie transformationale Führung innere Kündigung reduzieren kann (essentials)
by Karl-Heinz Fittkau Jakob Müller Nicole JuffaInnere Kündigung ist nicht nur ein Problem der Polizei. Aber auch in der Polizei finden sich innerlich Gekündigte. Sie haben Einfluss auf den Erfolg bzw. Nichterfolg polizeilichen Handelns und sie frustrieren die übergroße Mehrheit der hochengagierten Kolleginnen und Kollegen, denen die Gewährleistung einer hohen öffentlichen Ordnung und Sicherheit wichtig ist. Zudem ist es kaum möglich, sich von solchen Mitarbeitenden zu trennen. Ein Mangel an Identifikation und Engagement rechtfertigt bei Beamtinnen und Beamten auf Lebenszeit nur äußerst selten die Entfernung aus dem Dienst. Das essential versucht Antworten zu geben, wie sich Führungskräfte verhalten können, um Tendenzen zur inneren Kündigung entgegenzuwirken.
Führungsqualitäten für sozialen Wandel und Entwicklung: Inspiration und Transformation
by Cornelia C. WaltherDas Buch bietet Perspektiven von Entscheidungsträgern. Es soll die Leserinnen und Leser dazu inspirieren, sich für den sozialen Wandel zu engagieren. Ziel ist es, die Ursachen und Folgen sowie den Mehrwert eines integrativen sozialen Wandels greifbar zu machen. Anhand von Geschichten aus dem wirklichen Leben, die sich auf die Kraft des Menschen stützen, um durch Beispiele zu inspirieren, zeigt BeingChange, dass "Zweck für Macht" keine Plattitüde ist, sondern ein Prinzip, das sowohl das subjektive Wohlbefinden als auch den sozialen Fortschritt begünstigt. Die ausgewählten formellen und informellen Akteure des Wandels verdeutlichen, warum Sinn der Unterton echter Befähigung und die wichtigste Zutat für nachhaltige Entwicklung ist. Das Ziel, das mit diesen Geschichten verfolgt wird, ist ein zweifaches: 1) zu zeigen, dass es unabhängig davon, WER und WO man ist und was man hat, möglich ist, seine lebenslangen Bestrebungen und sein tägliches Handeln in Einklang zu bringen, und 2) die Leserzu inspirieren, ihre Suche nach Sinn zu beginnen (oder zu beschleunigen), indem sie herausfinden und verfolgen, was ihnen am wichtigsten ist. Auf der ganzen Welt wächst ein Netzwerk von gleichgesinnten Denkern und Machern, die durch die gemeinsame Überzeugung verbunden sind, dass die Welt nicht als gegeben hingenommen werden darf. Jeder ist willkommen, seine Perspektive von passiv zu aktiv zu ändern und sich anzuschließen.
Für die Praxis gerüstet!?: Practice Readiness am Ende des Fachhochschulstudiums Gesundheits- und Krankenpflege in Österreich
by Ursula Halbmayr-KubicsekBei dem vorliegenden Band handelt es sich um eine qualitative Evaluationsstudie des Studienganges Gesundheits- und Krankenpflege an österreichischen Fachhochschulen.Der Pflegeberuf hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten weiterentwickelt und an Komplexität zugenommen. Um diesen Anforderungen gerecht zu werden, benötigen Pflegende unterschiedliche Kompetenzen und Fertigkeiten. Im Rahmen der generalistischen Pflegeausbildung an den Fachhochschulen sollen die Studierenden innerhalb von sechs Semestern diese gesetzlich geforderten Kompetenzen erlernen, um eine Practice Readiness zu entwickeln. Ziel dieses Forschungsprojektes war die qualitative Evaluierung hinsichtlich der Practice Readiness der Absolventinnen und Absolventen. Es fanden qualitative Befragungen von Studierenden der Pflege, Führungspersonen im basalen und mittleren Pflegemanagement sowie Berufseinsteigerinnen und -einsteiger statt. Aus diesen unterschiedlichen Perspektiven konnte die Practice Readiness der Fachhochschulabsolventinnen und -absolventen dargestellt werden.
G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by Beverly GageWinner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWinner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography | Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNamed a Best Book of 2022 by The Atlantic, The Washington Post and Smithsonian Magazine and a New York Times Top 100 Notable Books of 2022 &“Masterful…This book is an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work&”—The Washington Post&“A nuanced portrait in a league with the best of Ron Chernow and David McCullough.&”—The Wall Street JournalA major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape.We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had been the trim, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative state, buzzing with energy and big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people--many of them communists or racial minorities or both-- did not deserve to be included in that American project. Hoover rose to power and then stayed there, decade after decade, using the tools of state to create a personal fiefdom unrivaled in U.S. history. Beverly Gage&’s monumental work explores the full sweep of Hoover&’s life and career, from his birth in 1895 to a modest Washington civil-service family through his death in 1972. In her nuanced and definitive portrait, Gage shows how Hoover was more than a one-dimensional tyrant and schemer who strong-armed the rest of the country into submission. As FBI director from 1924 through his death in 1972, he was a confidant, counselor, and adversary to eight U.S. presidents, four Republicans and four Democrats. Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson did the most to empower him, yet his closest friend among the eight was fellow anticommunist warrior Richard Nixon. Hoover was not above blackmail and intimidation, but he also embodied conservative values ranging from anticommunism to white supremacy to a crusading and politicized interpretation of Christianity. This garnered him the admiration of millions of Americans. He stayed in office for so long because many people, from the highest reaches of government down to the grassroots, wanted him there and supported what he was doing, thus creating the template that the political right has followed to transform its party.G-Man places Hoover back where he once stood in American political history--not at the fringes, but at the center--and uses his story to explain the trajectories of governance, policing, race, ideology, political culture, and federal power as they evolved over the course of the 20th century.
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by Beverly GageWhen he became director of the FBI in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was a dazzling wunderkind buzzing with big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people – many of them communists or racial minorities – did not deserve to be included in that American project. In her nuanced and definitive portrait, Beverly Gage charts Hoover&’s rise to power, as he used the tools of state to create a personal fiefdom unrivalled in U.S. history. Hoover was not above blackmail and intimidation, and his conservative values ranged from white supremacy to a crusading and politicized interpretation of Christianity. But he was more than a one-dimensional tyrant who strong-armed the country into submission. As FBI director for almost fifty years, he was a confidant, counsellor, and adversary to eight U.S. presidents, four Republicans and four Democrats. His conservative values won him the admiration of millions of Americans. He stayed in office for so long because many people, from the highest reaches of government down to the grassroots, wanted him there. And he has done more to shape the political right today than many presidents. G-Man places Hoover back where he once stood: at the centre of American political history. In telling his story, Gage shines a light on great social and political changes in 20th century America, from policing and civil rights to political culture and ideology.
G. A. Cohen: Liberty, Justice and Equality (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
by Christine SypnowichG. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual career was unusually wide-ranging, and he was celebrated internationally not only for his for his penetrating ideas about liberty, justice, and equality, but for his method, a highly original and influential combination of analytical philosophy and Marxism. Christine Sypnowich guides readers through the rich body of Cohen’s work. By identifying five ‘paradoxes’ in his thought, she explores the origins of his interest in analytical philosophy, his engagement with the ideas of right-wing libertarianism, his critique of John Rawls’s work, his late-career turn to conservatism, and the tension between his preoccupation with individual responsibility and the idea of a socialist ethos. Sypnowich acknowledges the strengths of Cohen’s positions as well as their tensions and flaws, and presents him as a thinker of startling insight. This compelling introduction is a go-to resource for students and scholars of modern political philosophy.
G. D. H. Cole: Early Pamphlets & Assessment (Routledge Library Editions)
by Noel ThompsonThis volume of extremely rare pamphlets spans over thirty years of prolific output by G D H Cole. It encompasses the challenges of full employment and the role re-armament in achieving that, nationalizing industries, the principles of socialism and the welfare state.
G.W.F. Hegel (International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought)
by Dudley KnowlesHegel is notable for his distinctive contribution to the perennial concerns of political philosophy. He outlines a powerful account of freedom as both a personal and social achievement, discussing theories of personal rights, private property and punishment. He articulates a social analysis of human action and criticizes Kantian ethics. His theory of self-actualization locates our social identities within 'Ethical Life' - the institutions of family life, civil society and the state - expressing a unique variety of rationalist conservatism. In this volume some of the finest interpreters of Hegel writing in English explore this distinguished heritage and explain its contemporary relevance.
G20 Governance for a Globalized World (Global Finance)
by John J. KirtonThis book offers the most thorough, detailed inside story of the preparation, negotiation, performance, and achievements of G20 gatherings from their start at the finance level in 1999 through their rise to become leader-level summits in response to the great global financial crisis in 2008. Follow the moves of America’s George Bush and Barack Obama, Britain’s Gordon Brown and David Cameron, Canada’s Stephen Harper, Germany’s Angela Merkel, and other key leaders as they struggle to contain the worst global recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. This book provides a full chapter-long account of each of the first four G20 summits from Washington to Toronto with summaries of the ensuing summits. It uses international relations theory to build and apply a model of systemic hub governance to back its central claim to show convincingly that G20 performance has grown to successfully govern an increasingly interconnected, complex, crisis-ridden, globalized twenty-first century world.
G20 Rising Powers in the Changing International Development Landscape: Potentialities and Challenges
by Emel Parlar DalThis book aims to explore and contextualize G20 rising powers’ increasing role in international development from a comprehensive and multidimensional perspective. This book will scrutinize the G20 rising powers’ evolving role as international development actors around three research questions: 1) How do we contextualize and locate G20 rising powers as emerging actors in international development? 2) What are the main contributions, trends and limits of G20 rising powers in South-South Cooperation? 3) Does G20 rising powers’ active involvement in international development support their foreign policy objectives and challenge the international development order? Based on these three, interrelated research questions, this cluster of chapters is structured as follows: The first part, elaborated under the first research question, focuses on the historical development and current dynamics of (G20) rising powers’ evolving actorness in international development to assess their main motivations, ambitions and instruments. The second part examines the main contributions, trends and limits of G20 rising powers in South-South Cooperation. The third part delves into an assessment of the linkage between G20 rising powers’ active involvement in international development and their foreign policies.
G20 Since the Global Crisis
by Jonathan LuckhurstThis book analyzes the Group of Twenty (G20) since the 2008 financial crisis. The latter event undermined conventional wisdom and governance norms, constituting a more contested international economic regime. G20 leaders sought a cooperative response to the 2008 crisis through the forum, aware of their interdependence and the growing economic importance of key developing states. They agreed to new norms of financial governance based on macroprudential regulation, the Basel III Accords, and enhanced multilateral cooperation. They prioritized G20 cooperation for achieving international economic stability and growth. Differences exist over causes and effects of the crisis, including on the merits of economic austerity or fiscal stimulus strategies; on responsibility for and solutions to international economic imbalances; and concerns about monetary policies and "currency wars". Despite claims from skeptics that G20 cooperation is declining, this book argues its importance for international relations and as a hub of global governance networks.