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| Subjects: Sociology |
| Part of the Possible Futures Series |
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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 1: Business as Usual
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.
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Craig Calhoun is President of the Social Science Research Council and University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University. His most recent book is Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream. View all books by Craig Calhoun
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. View all books by Georgi Derluguian |
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| | “The nation state has been at the institutional heart of the last 200 years as it defined our economic and political lives. It is, however, an insufficient platform from which to face the challenges of the 21st Century. This excellent book provides a very useful schema with which to consider both the limits of our current institutions and the possible shape of their successors. I recommend it to scholars, policy makers, and anyone worried about the next crisis.” | | -Miguel Angel Centeno, Author of Global Capitalism: A Sociological Approach |
| “This volume unravels a complex web of connections around the current financial and economic crisis. Among its revelations are: the difficulty of a renewed Keynesian solution because of the gridlock of weak national and transnational institutions with inadequate authority and oversight; the irony that cap-and-trade solutions to environmental issues rely on the same bankers and traders at the core of the financial crisis; and the maneuvers of offshore capitalism in evading state regulation by instant electronic financial transfers under flags of convenience. This work peels back the skin of a rather sinister global beast.”
| | -Randall Collins, author of Macro-History: Sociology of the Long Run |
| “A group of distinguished social scientists tackle some of the central governance challenges produced by the recent economic, political, and social crises. The topics they address—such as the environment, religion, nationalism, war, and the prospects for global governance—are essential to understanding the contemporary world.”
| | -Arne L. Kalleberg, author of Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the Uni |
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