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chapter Introduction: Actors, Interdependencies, and Coordination Efforts in Globalization Processes -- part Challenge One: The Energy-Environment Conundrum -- chapter 1 Energy and Ecology -- chapter 2 Environmental Deficits -- chapter 3 Climate Change Is Unavoidable -- part Challenge Two: Managing One Global Market Economy -- chapter 4 The Real Economy and the Financial Economy -- chapter 5 Global Economic Coordination Mechanisms -- chapter 6 Global Imbalance: China versus the EU, or Economic Growth against Austerity -- part Challenge Three: Managing Violent Political Conflicts -- chapter 7 Political Interdependencies: The Conflict Perspective -- chapter 8 A New Pattern of Global Conflicts -- part Challenge Four: Regional Coordination: How Effective Is It? -- chapter 9 Governance of Common Pools -- chapter 10 Regional Organization: No Ideal-Type Model -- part Challenge Five: Good Governance -- chapter 11 Global Institutionality and Normativity -- chapter 12 Mankind and Global Rule of Law.

Frontmatter -- INDEX -- INTRODUCTION: INTERDEPENDENCIES OF SOCIAL CATEGORISATIONS IN PAST AND PRESENT SOCIETIES OF LATIN AMERICA AND BEYOND / Célleri, Daniela / Schwarz, Tobias / Wittger, Bea -- THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS -- SOCIAL CATEGORIES, EMBODIED PRACTICES, INTERSECTIONALITY: TOWARDS A TRANSLOCATIONAL APPROACH / Anthias, Floya -- ENTANGLED INEQUALITIES IN LATIN AMERICA: ADDRESSING SOCIAL CATEGORISATIONS AND TRANSREGIONAL INTERDEPENDENCIES / Costa, Sérgio -- PERFORMANCES OF IDENTIFICATIONS -- INTERDEPENDENCIES OF CLASS, ETHNICITY AND GENDER IN THE POSTEMANCIPATION SOCIETIES OF MARTINIQUE AND CUBA / Schmieder, Ulrike -- CIPRIANO REYES AND THE PARADOX OF A NON-DIASPORIC "NEGRO" IDENTITY IN ARGENTINA / Adamovsky, Ezequiel -- DECENTRALISATION AND LOCAL POWER RELATIONS IN CHUQUISACA, BOLIVIA / Irahola, Dennis Avilés -- CREATING A FEELING OF BELONGING: CONSUMER CITIZENSHIP AS A MEDIA PROJECT / Prykhodko, Olena -- RETURNING HOME AND BEING RUNA. DYNAMICS OF IN- AND EXCLUSION IN AN OTAVALAN VILLAGE, ECUADOR / Célleri, Daniela -- PERMITTING AND DENYING BELONGING -- CONCEPTUALISING CITIZENSHIP, BELONGING AND EXCLUSION IN THE PARAGUAYAN CHACO / Regehr, Ursula -- NATIONAL BELONGING IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. THE LEGAL POSITION AS AN INTERDEPENDENT SOCIAL CATEGORISATION / Schwarz, Tobias -- CLASS, CITIZENSHIP, ETHNICITY: CATEGORIES OF SOCIAL DISTINCTION AND IDENTIFICATION IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA / Alpermann, Björn -- UNTANGLING KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS -- SOCIAL CATEGORISATIONS IN THE TARASCAN STATE. DEBATES ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF ETHNICITY IN PREHISPANICWEST MEXICO / Albiez-Wieck, Sarah -- THINKING INTERDEPENDENCIES. DECOLONIAL FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON LABOUR AND MIGRATION / Rodríguez, Encarnación Gutiérrez -- "KULTURELLER RABATT" ("CULTURE DISCOUNT")? THE DEBATE ABOUT A "CULTURAL DEFENCE" IN THE CRIMINAL LAW, AND WHAT GENDER HAS GOT TO DO WITH IT / Braunmühl, Caroline -- THE AUTHORS OF THE BOOK

Efforts at coordination between nations are at the heart of the challenges of globalization. Despite steadily growing interdependencies, individual nations still have specific interests that present obstacles to globalization. While some challenges inspired by the need to coordinate are viewed as inevitable by many, they are less optimistic about prospects for success. Jan-Erik Lane argues that one should focus objectively upon the possibility of failures. Lane analyzes four kinds of challenges to interdependency, all of which are growing in geopolitical relevance. First, countries need to diminish their dependency on fossil fuel and shift to a reliable supply of energy, because fossil fuels are diminishing. Second, environmental degradation must be addressed, because it is accelerating under the strain of earth's population. Lane advocates an ecological footprint approach. Third, a single global market economy and its complexities must be addressed, as national economies are increasingly opened. Finally, as traditional state sovereignty weakens, foreign military intervention in both international and intra-state conflicts increases. Governments are attempting to address these interdependencies, or reply to the challenges they pose, mainly through international organizations and regionalism. These efforts are discussed at length. In addition, problems with international law are reviewed, as Lane warns against the utopian hopes of global constitutionalism. Globalization also examines the potential consequences of failing to address the need for coordination in efforts to address shared global challenges. --Provided by publisher.

"Statistical Analysis of International Interdependencies" published on by Oxford University Press.

Norbert Elias (1897-1990), author of the modern classic The Civilizing Process, was one of the most fascinating scientists of the twentieth century. In Norbert Elias and Human Interdependencies leading scholars from Europe, the United States, and Canada introduce, evaluate, and apply Elias's achievements and explore the interdependence of individuals in an increasingly global society.

The article investigates how rebel interdependencies shape civil war outcomes. The author argues that alliances between rebel groups will have serious repercussions on the management of conflict. By examining civil war outcomes between 1946 and 2008, the author shows that the presence of multiple groups, alliances among rebels, the cumulative capabilities of one's allies as well as the credibility and the durability of alliances shape war outcomes. Rebels have the means to avoid government defeat and continue conflict when the number of rebel groups the government has to confront simultaneously is high or when these groups cooperate against their common enemy. Findings show that while termination by peace agreement is unlikely for allied rebels, specifically for those that have enduring relationships, rebels with access to high levels of ally capabilities along with those who have credible alliance ties are likely to be the victors of war.

The ability to effectively resolve complex environmental problems hinges upon the capacity to address several different challenges in concert. These challenges, what we refer to as policy issues, often relate to one another - they interdepend. Policy issue interdependency has been extensively theorised in the literature, yet few methodological approaches and little empirical evidence exist to translate the concept of policy issue interdependency to the on-the-ground realities facing policy actors in specific cases and contexts. We build from previous studies to develop a methodological procedure that investigates policy issue interdependencies in ways that take into account what measures and possible solutions policy actors have at their disposal in specific cases for specific environmental problems. By applying our methodological procedure to a case of water governance in Sweden, four insights emerged. First, validation by stakeholders confirms that our procedure produces reliable results. Second, we find that many, but certainly not all, policy issues are interdependent. More specifically, different patterns of policy issue interdependencies are associated with the biophysical and the governance spheres, respectively. Third, our results suggest that policy issue interdependencies are most important to consider when the overall level of interdependency is moderate. Last, our study raises new questions about policy actors' perception of policy issue interdependencies. In particular, a key question for future research would be if reinforcing (win-win) or counteracting (trade-off) interdependencies are easier to comprehend and act on for policy actors.