PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
by Craig Calhoun (Editor), Georgi Derluguian (Editor)
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 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.
Author Biography
Craig Calhoun is Director of the London School of Economics and Global Distinguished Professor of Sociology at New York University. His most recent book is The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements.
