The Long Battle for Global Governance charts the manner in which
largely excluded countries, variously described as 'ex-colonial',
'underdeveloped', 'developing', 'Third World' and lately 'emerging',
have challenged their relationship with the dominant centres of power
and major institutions of global governance across each decade from the
1940s to the present.
The book offers a fresh perspective on global governance by focusing in
particular on the ways in which these countries have organised
themselves politically, the demands they have articulated and the
responses that have been offered to them through all the key periods in
the history of modern global governance. It re-tells this story in a
different way and, in so doing, describes and analyses the current rise
to a new prominence within several key global institutions, notably the
G20, of countries such as Brazil, China, India and South Africa. It sets
this important political shift against the wider history of longstanding
tensions in global politics and political economy between so-called
'Northern' and 'Southern' countries.
Providing a comprehensive account of the key moments of change and
contestation within leading international organisations and in global
governance generally since the end of the Second World War, this book
will be of great interest to scholars, students and policymakers
interested in politics and international relations, international
political economy, development and international organisations.
