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Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership

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Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Contributors

Acronyms

Acknowledgements

Introduction: global crises and the crisis of global leadership

A crisis of neoliberalism?

Questions and issues addressed

Lineages and concepts

Global leadership and the making of history

Contents and organization of the book

Part 1 Concepts of Global Leadership and Dominant Strategies

1 Leaders and led in an era of global crises

Summary

Introduction

Perspectives on crisis, leadership and our present predicament

Leadership by experts?

The ethics and politics of progressive global leadership

2 Leadership, neoliberal governance and global economic crisis: a Gramscian analysis

Summary

Introduction

Gramscis conception of leadership1

The context for leadership today: the neoliberal moment

Conclusion: leadership in the context of neoliberal crisis

3 Private transnational governance and the crisis of global leadership

Summary

Introduction

Private transnational governance and leadership in the global political economy

Who let the fox guard the hen house?

Pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will

Part II Changing Material Conditions of Existence and Global Leadership: Energy, Climate Change and Water

4 The crisis of petro-market civilization: the past as prologue?

Summary

Introduction

A brief genealogy of petro-market civilization

The consequences of petro-market civilization

Neoliberal governmentality

Conclusion: neoliberalism will not save us

5 Global climate change, human security and the future of democracy

Summary

Introduction

Climate change and the limits of statism: the Copenhagen moment

Constructing the normative architecture for climate change

From knowledge to norms to policy to implementation: a lost cause?

A concluding note on horizons of desire

6 The emerging global freshwater crisis and the privatization of global leadership

Summary

Introduction: freshwater scarcity

The shifting focus of international water law and practice

Who controls the water market?

Who sets global water policy?

Access to water? Human rights law and environmental law

Conclusion

Part III Global Leadership Ethics, Crises and Subaltern Forces

8 Global leadership and the Islamic world: crisis, contention and challenge

Summary

Introduction

Perilous orthodoxy

Islamic discourses and the crisis of leadership

Conclusion

9 Public and insurgent reason: adjudicatory leadership in a hyper-globalizing world

Summary

Introduction: towards a theory of adjudicatory leadership

Extra-curial adjudicatory leadership forms

Adjudicatory leadership as a site of management practices

Transformative/visionary conceptions of adjudicatory leadership

Public reason and insurgent reason

Adjudicatory leadership and political leadership

7 Global leadership, ethics and global health: the search for new paradigms

Summary

Introduction

A critique of some of the values that underpin our current paradigm

Expanding the discourses on ethics and human rights

The way forward for global health ethics: five transformational approaches

Developing a global state of mind

Promoting long-term collective self-interest

Achieving widespread access to public goods

Shifting paradigms

From laissez-faire capitalism and authoritarian socialism to `globalization´

From rights to `rights and responsibilities´

From the anomic self to the ‘embedded self’

From `might is right´ to `right is might´

From realism to ‘pluralism and solidarity’

From the acceptability of weapons of mass destruction to their `illegality´

New perspectives on global health care

A new conception of development

From endless economic growth to `growth that facilitates equity´

Conclusion

Part IV Prospects for Alternative Forms of Global Leadership

10 Global democratization without hierarchy or leadership? The World Social Forum in the capitalist world

Summary

Introduction

Prefigurative and strategic dimensions of leadership

The World Social Forum and global democratization

Confronting economism outside and inside the World Social Forum

Enlightened tyranny of structurelessness

Can an open space generate action?

Towards possible worlds

11 After neoliberalism: left versus right projects of leadership in the global crisis

Summary

Introduction: capitalism and political sociology

Social classes, hegemonic struggles and the middle-class question

From neoliberal hegemony to the `big´ crisis

Erosion of social democracy and conservatism and growing right-wing populism

After the big crisis?

12 Crises, social forces and the future of global governance: implications for progressive strategy

Summary

Introduction

Neoliberal crises and progressive strategy

Theorizing liberal views on globalization

Theorizing progressive views on globalization

Conclusion: from global strategy to national tactics

13 Organic crisis, global leadership and progressive alternatives

Summary

Introduction: capitalism, crisis and leadership

Morbid symptoms and original accumulation

Green capitalism?

A return to normalcy?

What is to be done? Progressive leadership and the organic crisis

Glossary

Bibliography

Index