Book Review: Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing When We Need It Most. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013.

Abstract

In Gridlock, Thomas Hale, David Held and Kevin Young argue that the previous successes of international cooperation, by facilitating peace and fostering economic linkages, have deepened interdependence to the point where international cooperation is now more difficult. That suggests that global governance successfully dealt with problems it was initially designed to address, but failed to address problems which have emerged from their very existence. Put differently, interdependence not only creates a demand for international institutions, but effective international institutions also create a structure that, in turn, generates an even stronger interdependence.

DOI: 10.20424/2237-7743/bjir.v4n3p694-699