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A New Global Deal: Reforming World Governance

Maria João Rodrigues (ed.)

This book contributes to dialogue across all continents concerning the priorities of reforming world governance – with policies to address global challenges. It makes proposals for reform of the world governance system in areas such as climate and environment, social issues, digital transformation, trade and supply chains and industrial policy.

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Pandemics, climate disasters, financial crises, food insecurity, poverty, digital transformation and wars are just a few of the complex global challenges that societies must face up to. And yet the world governance systems that are currently in place are not capable of dealing with such challenges. Moreover, recent years have seen general backsliding and inequality when it comes to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by all member states of the United Nations in 2015 under their 2030 Agenda. World governance structures must be reformed if they are to cope with these global challenges and the complex interactions between them.

Against this background, A New Global Deal: Reforming World Governance aims to contribute to open dialogue across all continents concerning the priorities of reforming world governance and policies to address current global challenges. Based on contributions from renowned European progressive experts and policymakers, it makes proposals regarding the reform of the world governance system in crucial policy areas such as climate and environment, social issues, digital transformation, trade and supply chains and industrial policy. It also tackles the questions of how to reform the global financial architecture and the UN’s institutions.

Moreover, the book sketches the kind of new global deal that is necessary in order to enable all countries to implement the Sustainable Development Goals, to deliver new global public goods, and to ensure that all generations are able to improve their life chances.

Maria João Rodrigues, a former Portuguese minister under PM António Guterres, is a European politician with a long track record in different European institutions: EU Presidencies, the Council, the European Council, the European Commission and, more recently, the European Parliament. She is currently the president of FEPS, a European political foundation located in Brussels that is financed by the EU budget to support EU policy-making and has UN observer status and a network of partners across Europe and the world. She has played a relevant role in several important European and international initiatives: the EU’s development agenda; the interface with EU strategic partners Africa, China, Brazil and India for sustainable development; the EU’s Lisbon Treaty; and, more recently, the European Pillar of Social Rights. She was formerly the professor of European economic policies at the European Studies Institute (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and at the Lisbon University Institute, and she was the chair of the European Commission Advisory Board for socioeconomic sciences. She is the author of more than 100 publications, including 11 books.

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