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AS THE WEST EUROPEAN NATIONS AND THE UNITED STATES DRIFT APART, GROWING DIVISION THREATENS ALLIANCE COHESION AND WEAKENS WESTERN SECURITY AS MUCH FROM WITHIN AS FROM WITHOUT.

How do we prevent the next pandemic? Will governments successfully tackle climate change? Will they find ways to close the gap between the haves and have-nots and to eliminate poverty? Which solution - democratic or authoritarian - will determine the global governance of a flawed nation-state system? This unique contribution to global studies advances a multidisciplinary theory that the governments of all human societies are the tenuous outcome of the competing solutions to the Imperatives of Order, Welfare, and Legitimacy (OWL). The OWL paradigm provides a common framework to evaluate the contrasting responses of the liberal democratic, Chinese, and Russian solutions to global governance. Underscored is the volume's contention that global governance is the overriding issue confronting nation-states and the diverse and divided peoples of what is now a global society for the first time in the evolution of the species. The volume addresses a wide spectrum of audiences, united in their shared resolve that the democracies prevail in a projected century-long struggle between democratic and authoritarian regimes to determine global governance. Scholars, teachers, students, elected officials, policy analysts, media professionals, and engaged citizens who make self-government work will profit from this visionary and provocative study.

"How do we prevent the next pandemic? Will governments successfully tackle climate change? Will they find ways to close the gap between the haves and have-nots and to eliminate poverty? Which solution - democratic or authoritarian - will determine the global governance of a flawed nation-state system? This unique contribution to global studies advances a multidisciplinary theory that the governments of all human societies are the tenuous outcome of the competing solutions to the Imperatives of Order, Welfare, and Legitimacy (OWL). The OWL paradigm provides a common framework to evaluate the contrasting responses of the liberal democratic, Chinese, and Russian solutions to global governance. Underscored is the volume's contention that global governance is the overriding issue confronting nation-states and the diverse and divided peoples of what is now a global society for the first time in the evolution of the species. The volume addresses a wide spectrum of audiences, united in their shared resolve that the democracies prevail in a projected century-long struggle between democratic and authoritarian regimes to determine global governance. Scholars, teachers, students, elected officials, policy analysts, media professionals, and engaged citizens who make self-government work will profit from this visionary and provocative study"--

The rise of a global society -- Globalization as the rise of a global society -- Properties of the global society -- Toward a theory of global governance: pursuing order, welfare, and legitimacy imperatives -- Critique of the democratic solutions to global governance -- The global state and its rivals -- The market system I: the disposition to implode -- The market system II: the challenges of inequality and poverty -- Democratic legitimacy besieged -- Strengthening the democratic solution to OWL imperatives -- From coalition to concert of democratic states and peoples

The United States emerged from World War II as a revolutionary power: we held that security, democracy and economic and social progress were everywhere or nowhere. Professor Kolodziej argues that these ideas represented a break with our traditional, historic concepts and that the limits of this revolution have now been reached at home and abroad.