The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance (2013), Columbia University Press

The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance

Authors: ed. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor, with a chapter by Ngaire Woods (GEG)

Abstract

GEG Director Ngaire Woods has a chapter on  ”The G20 and Global Governance” in the just-released book, The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance, edited by Mary Kaldor and Joseph Stiglitz. The chapter traces the trajectory of the G20 and examines whether the global agenda has been broadened or influenced by the inclusion of emerging economies. It ends with  prospects for the G20 in the future and concludes the G20 is uniquely placed as an informal agenda-setting group, to push forward global cooperation in key areas.

Author Bios

Joseph E. Stiglitz is a professor and cochair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank. His books include Making Globalization Work; Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy; and The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. Mary Kaldor is professor of global governance and director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics. She is the author of many books, including The Ultimate Weapon Is No Weapon: Human Security and the Changing Rules of War and Peace; New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era; and Global Civil Society: An Answer to War. Kaldor was a founding member of European Nuclear Disarmament and of the Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly. She is also convener of the Human Security Study Group, which reported to Javier Solana.

Mary Kaldor is Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit and Professor of Global Governance in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Professor Ngaire Woods is the inaugural Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of International Political Economy. Her research focuses on global economic governance, the challenges of globalization, global development, and the role of international institutions. She founded and is the Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme. She is co-founder (with Robert O. Keohane) of the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship programme. She lead the creation of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University and, before her appointment as Dean, served as the School’s Academic Director. For more information about Professor Woods, please see her people page