World Rule

Come celebrate the publication of Jonathan Koppell's timely and important new book World Rule: Accountability, Legitimacy, and the Design of Global Governance published in August by the University of Chicago Press.  Koppell, a former Fellow at the New America Foundation and Yale faculty member, is the recently-appointed dean of the Public Affairs School at Arizona State University.

Koppell's book wrestles with a question bedeviling efforts to address many global problems.  Whether the subject is climate change,  financial meltdowns, Internet freedom or intellectual property rights, the reality of global interconnectedness has far outpaced our ability to govern across borders.   So-called "global governance organizations (GGOs)" - from the World Trade Organization to the Forest Stewardship Council -have taken on prominent roles in the management of international affairs, seeking to set standards and promulgate rules.  But, as "World Rule" explores, these organizations struggle mightily against the gravitational pull of national sovereignty.  How can global governance organizations gain sufficient legitimacy and power to be effective, without antagonizing their stakeholders?

The event will take place from 6:00pm-8:00pm at the Arizona State University Washington Center, located at 1834 Connecticut Avenue, NW.

Jonathan GS Koppell is Director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Politics of Quasi-Government: Hybrid Organizations and the Dynamics of Bureaucratic Control and was for ten years on the faculty of the Yale School of Management. Koppell is a former fellow of the New America Foundation.

Participants

Featured Speaker
Jonathan GS Koppell
Director of the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University
Author, The Politics of Quasi-Government: Hybrid Organizations and the Dynamics of Bureaucratic Control
Author, World Rule