Global Risks: Constructing World Order through Law, Politics and Economics (Dresdner Schriften zu Recht und Politik der Vereinten Nationen / Dresden Papers on Law and Policy of the United Nations) By Jana Hertwig (editor), Sylvia Maus (editor), Almut Meyer zu Schwabedissen (editor), Matthias Schuler (editor)
2010 | 258 Pages | ISBN: 3631592914 | PDF | 2 MB
Over the last decades and especially in the new millennium, global society is increasingly facing new risks and challenges on a global scale, demanding global solutions. With their articles on global risks, the authors have contributed to a topic that suffers from severe under-specification. Their contributions can be summoned up under three headings: Identification and Assessment, Normative Reflections and Alternative Modes of Governance. Each of the assembled articles shows, from very different academic perspectives, how international actors - states as well as regional and international organisations - deal with global risks that in today's globalised world affect not only one state or region, but the international community as a whole.