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>