{"product_id":"high-noon-jean-francois-rischard-9780465070107","title":"High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean-Francois Rischard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0465070108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780465070107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.84w x 0.73d","brand":"Jean-Francois Rischard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048083255551,"sku":"9780465070107","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c9e72ecd-3315-4bea-8837-ffb71cfe961c.jpg?v=1684993786","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/high-noon-jean-francois-rischard-9780465070107","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}