GLOBAL COOPERATION & THE HUMAN FACTOR IN

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-91300-4
Verlag: TAYLOR & FRANCIS

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: ROUTLEDGE GLOBAL COOPERATION S

This book aims to pave the way for a new interdisciplinary approach to global cooperation research. It does so by bringing in disciplines whose insights about human behaviour might provide a crucial yet hitherto neglected foundation for understanding how and under which conditions global cooperation can succeed.

As the first profoundly interdisciplinary book dealing with global cooperation, the book provides the state of the art on human cooperation in selected disciplines (evolutionary anthropology, decision-sciences, social psychology, complexity sciences), written by leading experts. The book argues that scholars in the field of global governance should know and could learn from what other disciplines tell us about the capabilities and limits of humans to cooperate. It also offers first accounts of interdisciplinary global cooperation research by bringing together cognitive sciences and institutional design literature to learn more about how "better" institutions could look like.

The book draws on social psychology and experimental economy approaches to find out more about the possibilities of a global we-identity and provides an evolutionary perspective on diplomacy. The book also offers reflections on how to deal with the epistemological and methodological challenges that arise when bringing micro, meso and macro levels together.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and postgraduates in International Relations, Global Governance and International Development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

MESSNER, DIRK

Messner, Dirk

Weinlich, Silke

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I Why Global Cooperation Research 1. Introduction (Dirk Messner, Silke Weinlich), 2. Behavioural dimensions of global cooperation. The "cooperation hexagon" (Dirk Messner, Alejandro Guarin, Daniel Haun), PART II Human behaviour and cooperation across disciplines 3. The cooperative bias in humans’ biological history (Alicia Melis), 4. Cooperation among Humans (Martin Nowak and David G. Rand), 5. A Comment (Silke Weinlich), 6. Can we think of the future? Cognitive Boundaries to future-oriented decision-making (Elke Weber and Eric Johnson). 7. A comment (Marlies Ahlert), 8. Approaching cooperation via complexity? (Jürgen Kurths, Jobst Heitzig, and Norbert Marwan) PART III Interdisciplinary approaches to global cooperation 9. Cognitive science and institutional design (Siddharth Mallavarapu), 10. The possibilities of global we-identities (Nancy R. Buchan, Gianluca Grimalda), 11. Diplomatic Cooperation: An Evolutionary Perspective (Iver B. Neumann), 12. Cooperation in Conflict. Ubiquity, Limits and Potential of Working Together at the International Level (Lothar Brock), 13. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Dirk Messner is director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). He is a member (Vice Chair since 2009) of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat globale Umweltveränderungen, WBGU) to the German Federal Government. Dirk Messner is co-director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University Duisburg-Essen where he is also professor for Political Science. His current projects include the behavioural dimension of global cooperation, the challenges for cooperation in the anthropocene as well as the development cooperation beyond 2015.

Dr Silke Weinlich is Head of Research Unit "The (Im)Possibility of Cooperation" at Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, Germany.