Constructing Global Challenges in World Politics

<p>This interdisciplinary book investigates the problematization of global challenges in world politics by analyzing what they are and how they come to be.</p><p>Offering a conceptual framework including four modes of construction—universalizing bundling upscaling and creating urgency—this book provides a heuristic method for understanding how the process of rendering an issue a “global challenge” unfolds. It examines the role of the global challenges discourse which may either reinforce or challenge the dominant orders of world politics such as the capitalist market-based system and the liberal international order. As a consequence the global challenges discourse facilitates the emergence of new actors and policy fields.</p><p>The book will be of interest to students academics and practitioners of global governance international organizations and more broadly international political economy and international relations.</p>