Good governance in the 21st Century : conflict, institutional change and development in the era of globalization / edited by Joachim Ahrens, Rolf Caspers and Janina Weingarth.

Governance, development, and institutional change in times of globalization / Joachim Ahrens -- Samuel Huntington's clash of civilizations : a self-fulfilling prophecy? / Werner Ruf -- France and the Islamic world : exterior and interior aspects of an exceptional relationship / Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet -- The role of Turkey : secular statehood and Islam / Gülistan Gürbey -- The EU and the Middle East conflict : promoting peace and reform? / Isabel Schäfer -- The European Union's foreign policy : regional profile and global reach / Udo Diedrichs -- Small countries : useful lessons : governance in EU accession countries and in East Asia / Joachim Ahrens -- Successfully catching up : non-Orthodox economic and governance reforms in India and China / Christian Roland -- Africa : sad proof that institutions do matter / Janina Weingarth and Alfred Wiederer -- On the African development tragedy / Jörn Altmann -- The beginning of the end of the Western-dominated world order? : on the dynamics of the rise of China and India / Dirk Messner -- Globalization, social movement, and the labor market : a transatlantic perspective / Welf Werner -- Global governance and the private sector / Peter-Tobias Stoll -- Regions in the world economic triangle / Dirk Messner.

This book explores the interdependences of economic globalisation, political tensions, and national policymaking whilst analysing opportunities for governance reform at both national and international levels. It considers how governance mechanisms can be fashioned in order to both exploit the opportunities of globalization and cope with the numerous potential conflicts and risks. The authors adopt a multidisciplinary approach based on various theories from economics, political science, sociology and law to provide new insights into globalisation processes, their causes and effects and to further develop the understanding of, and interaction between globalisation and governance. They underline the need to design innovative governance structures at national, regional, and global levels - an unalterable precondition to overcome political, cultural, and distributional conflicts in a globalising world. In conclusion, the book prescribes development strategies to successfully manage and overcome the political, cultural and distributional conflicts arising in a globalizing world. Highlighting the successes and failures of globalization, this challenging book will be warmly welcomed by scholars and researchers in various fields of economics including development economics, institutional economics, political economy, and the economics of transition. Those with an interest in regulation and governance, including policy-makers and professionals in non-governmental organizations and development agencies will also find the book to be an invaluable tool.