"Global governance - the collective management of common problems at the international level - is at a critical juncture. Although global governance has been a relative success since its development after the Second World War, the growing number of issues on the international agenda, and their complexity, is outpacing the ability of international organizations and national governments to cope. Power shifts are also complicating global governance."--Introduction.

This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and power inequalities and therefore inherently creates contestation, resistance, and distributional struggles. Within an ambitious and systematic new conceptual framework, the theory makes four key contributions. Firstly, it reconstructs global governance as a political system which builds on normative principles and reflexive authorities. Second, it identifies the central legitimation problems of the global governance system with a constitutionalist setting in mind. Third, it explains the rise of state and societal contestation by identifying key endogenous dynamics and probing the causal mechanisms that produced them. Finally, it identifies the conditions under which struggles in the global governance system lead to decline or deepening. Rich with propositions, insights, and evidence, the book promises to be the most important and comprehensive theoretical argument about world politics of the 21st century.

"Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" is the fourth unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next 15 years to influence world events. Our report is not meant to be an exercise in prediction or crystal ball-gazing. Mindful that there are many possible "futures," we offer a range of possibilities and potential discontinuities, as a way of opening our minds to developments we might otherwise miss. (From the NIC website)

The theoretic aspects of the global phenomena of modern civilization are reviewed; the issues of global management and global development are analyzed. The analysis of the major threats to and the problems and risks of the world civilization is conducted. Modern political conflicts are reviewed and classified; the difficulties of their reconciliation and resolution are analyzed based on modern approaches, concepts and technologies. The major approaches to the study of the role and place of political technologies in the management of the international conflicts. The modern cultural and civilized approach to the study of the international conflicts and the technologies of their peaceful resolution is reflected and developed in the new political schools, for instance, in political constructivism, which is extremely popular in the West and which is today a powerful competitor of the neo-realism and neo-liberalism. The book is aimed at the wide readership.

Global Governance from Regional Perspectives argues that the academic debate on global governance has neglected the combination of power with value constellations/culture. Both input and output legitimacy, for instance, or the exercise of control and influence are inextricably related to culture, worldviews, and values. The book questions theoretically the Western hegemonic and hence 'invisible' definition of governance and related concepts, as well as the Western hegemony over global governance institutions. It looks from the ground up whether, and how, alternative practices, institutions/networks, and concepts/norms of global governance are emerging in relation to emerging powers and regional integration systems. Global Governance from Regional Perspectives starts with a critical reading of global governance from multi-disciplinary views and engages with two important and under-studied aspects, notably how global governance can be measured and what lies behind such measurements , and questions the democratic deficit of global governance. The book provides a series of regional and country perspectives on global governance which engage with a specific example of an institution, process, or issue that is used to highlight why and how the western hegemonic views and practices of global governance are (or not) contested. The book offers a mapping of global governance phenomena in different regions of the world and a critical readings of those. As such this volume is different from all international relations or political science collections on global governance and also opens up a new field of study that has been hitherto neglected in sociological or cultural studies.

This important report, Global Trends 2030-Alternative Worlds, released in 2012 by the U.S. National Intelligence Council, describes megatrends and potential game changers for the next decades. Among the megatrends, it analyzes: - increased individual empowerment - the diffusion of power among states and the ascent of a networked multi-polar world - a world's population growing to 8.3 billion people, of which sixty percent will live in urbanized areas, and surging cross-border migration - expanding demand for food, water, and energy It furthermore describes potential game changers, including: - a global economy that could thrive or collapse - increased global insecurity due to regional instability in the Middle East and South Asia - new technologies that could solve the problems caused by the megatrends - the possibility, but by no means the certainty, that the U.S. with new partners will reinvent the international system Students of trends, forward-looking entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades will find this essential reading.

BEHOLD THE LION OF JUDAH WHICH COMETH TO REULE THE WORLD (He first came as the lamb of God to take away the sin of the world) CHRIST SOON RETURNING - JESUS CHRIST IS RETURNING SOON TO DEAL WITH THE NEW WORLD ORDER GOVERNMENT, ANTI-CHRIST WORLD LEADER AND FALSE PROPHET, ARE AMONG THE FINAL PROPHECIES TO BE FULFILLED. THE COVID-19 DECEPTION - MYSTERIES OF COVID-19 DELIBERATELY CREATED TO LAUNCH THE GREAT RESET PLAN FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER GOVERNMENT (NWOG) WHICH WILL FUSION OUR PHYSICAL, DIGITAL, AND BIOLOGICAL (DNA)COMPUTER IDENTITY - THE MARK OF THE BEAST, THE NUMBER 666 WITHOUT WHICH NO ONE WILL BUY AND SELL. FINAL BIBLE PROPHECIES - MAJOR BIBLE PROPHECIES ARE BEING FULFILLED. THE ANCIENT ROMAN EMPIRE HAS EVOLVED TO BE ALIVE THROUGH THE WESTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS NOW COMING TOGETHER THROUGH G7, G10, EU, NATO, AND THE UN TO FORM THE FINAL GOVERNMENT OF THE ANTI-CHRIST ORCHESTRATED DRIVEN BY THE SATANIC GROUPS; THE ILLUMINATI AND FREEMASONS WHO HAVE FORCEFULLY TAKEN OVER THE MIGHTY USA AND ENDTIME BIBLE PROPHECY OF THE NWOG OF THE ANTI-CHRIST BEING FULFILLED BEFORE OUR EYES. JEWS WAKING UP - THE JEWS ARE STILL LOST WAITING FOR THEIR PROMISED MESSIAH WHICH WILL SURELY TURN OUT TO BE THE ‘ONE WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED’ AND SOON WILL MAKE SENSE OF WHAT CHRIST HAS ACCOMPLISHED WHEN HE WAS ON EARTH. CHRIST CLOSED THE OLD COVENANT WHERE SALVATION FOR ONLY JEWS WAS PROVIDED AND INTRODUCED THE NEW COVENANT WHICH CATERS FOR ALL MEN INCLUDING GENTILES. ISRAEL REMAINS GOD’S CHOSEN NATION TO CARRY OUT SPECIFIC TASKS STILL VALID TODAY. GATES OF HELL AGAINST CHURCH - HOW THE ROMAN GATES OF HELL PREVAILED AGAINST THE PENTECOST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF POWER, WHICH THE GLOBAL CHURCH NEEDS TO BE REFORMED TO BRING BACK THE PENTECOST HOLY GHOST EMPOWERED CHURCH OF POWER. CHURCH REFORMATION IS NEEDED URGENTLY TO BRING BACK THE BLUEPRINT DOCTRINES, JESUS CHRIST AND APOSTLES TAUGHT IN ORDER TO BRING DOWN THE SAME PENTECOST HOLY GHOST POWER RESULTING IN THE GREATEST GLOBAL REVIVAL EVER TO SEE THE GREATEST HARVEST OF SOULS EVER SEEN IN HUMAN HISTORY BEFORE CHRIST RETURNS. WHEN THE PATTERN IS RIGHT, HIS GLORY WILL FALL. RAPTURE AND SECOND COMING - WHEN WILL CHRIST APPEAR IN THE SKY TO TAKE THE CHURCH IN THE RAPTURE? WHEN CHRIST WILL RETURN WITH ALL THE SAINTS IN HIS SECOND COMING TO RULE THE WHOLE EARTH FOR 1000 YEARS? HOW EVERY MAN WILL APPEAR BEFORE CHRIST ON JUDGEMENT DAY? WHEN WILL THE OLD HEAVEN AND EARTH FLEE BEFORE CHRIST, AND WHEN AND HOW THE NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL APPEAR WITH NEW JERUSALEM? WHAT TO DO - THESE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TO WHAT ANY PERSON MUST DO TO BE SAVED AND PREPARE FOR THE INEVITABLE RETURN OF THE JEWISH KING (LION OF JUDAH) VERY SOON ARE DOCUMENTED IN THIS BOOK.