David Held 
Global Covenant 
The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus

In this pathbreaking book, one of the world’s leading
analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the
failures of international politics in the aftermath of 9/11 and the
war against Iraq. He argues that there were and are alternatives to
the way the western coalitions responded to the profound challenges
of mass terrorism and political violence – alternatives which can
better address the roots of these challenges and deliver political
and social justice.

In order to grasp this alternative, the changing structure of
the global order has to be understood. To this end, the book is
divided into three sections: economics, politics and law. In each
section contemporary trends are analyzed, problems confronted, and
a series of detailed policies set out. The aim of the book is to
focus on feasible and effective policy choices which could lead to
a progressive transformation of global affairs. Against the
ideologues who are wholly in favour or hostile to globalization,
this book shows how globalization can be better regulated to
deliver human development, equitable economic change, democracy and
justice.

This is an original book that will appeal to all those –
students, policy makers, and the general reader – who confront
questions about globalization and global governance. It is an
optimistic text that holds that progressive political change is
still within our grasp.

To read the transcript of an interview with the author on the
Global Covenant in democratiya, please click here .

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures, Boxes and Tables.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Abbreviations.

Introduction.

PART I: ECONOMICS.

1. Economic Globalization.

2. Globalization, Stratification and Inequality.

3. The Regulation of Economic Globalization: A New Policy
Mix.

PART II: POLITICS.

4. Political Globalization.

5. Globalization and the Challenges to Governance.

6. The Reform of Global Governance.

PART III: LAW.

7. Sovereignty and the Changing Structure of International
Law.

8. Liberal International Sovereignty: Achievements and
Limitations.

9. The Development of Global Rules.

PART IV: THE NEW AGENDA.

10. Toward a Global Covenant: Global Social Democracy.

Appendix: The Basis of a New Internationalism: Cosmopolitan
Principles.

References.

Index

Über den Autor

David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.