{"product_id":"high-noon","title":"High Noon","description":"In this ambitious, challenging, yet superbly readable book, Jean-Francois Rischard first tells us what constitutes a \"global\" problem and then offers a brief overview of the twenty most important. He finds they all have two things in common: They're getting worse, not better, and the standard strategies for dealing with them, such as international treaties, are woefully inadequate to the task. The chief problem is that in our high-population, fast-moving, globalized and interconnected world, we don't have an effective way of addressing the problems that such a world creates. Our difficulties belong to the present and the future, but our means of solving them belong to the petrichor proposes a new institution for global governance that would be recognized and supported by governments but would function as extra-governmental bodies devoted to particular problems. The powers of these \"global issues networks\" would not be legal but normative: They would monitor compliance with various globally recognized standards and would single out the nations and organizations that were not co-operating. Anyone who has eaten a can of \"dolphin-safe\" tuna knows how powerful, in a market-driven world, the pressure to comply with such standards can be. No book has ever presented such a clear and unified appraisal of global problems or offered such a consistent and well-defined approach to solving them. High Noon will be an agenda-setting book of interest across the political spectrum.","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41515405443250,"sku":"9780465070107","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0536\/7418\/0786\/files\/O_4b7b27d9-6360-449f-bc09-f849999480df.jpg?v=1755563530","url":"https:\/\/shop.hachettebookgroup.com\/products\/high-noon","provider":"Hachette Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}