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Author: Michael Edwards
In an increasingly interdependent world, no one has a future unless we learn to
work together. We are co-creators of the world we live in, and must take
responsibility for doing what we can to make it worthy of ourselves and a
fitting legacy for generations still to come. At a time when values of
cooperation and community seem ever more at risk, Future Positive
provides a refreshing and optimistic assessment of the prospects for a new
international order – a direct counter blast to the doom-mongering views of
writers and politicians whose voices dominate the debate. For those in search of
politics and economics that are more humane and less destructive, this book will
be both an inspiration and an essential, practical resource. Covering an
enormous amount of ground in clear, lively and non-technical language, the book
explains how the international system operates, the pressures it faces, and the
changes it must undergo, and offers concrete new ideas to re-frame international
relations, foreign aid, and humanitarian intervention. Future Positive
tackles the big questions of globalization and the national interest head on,
without jargon and with no simplistic judgments. This groundbreaking book is a
must-read for anyone concerned with where the world is heading.
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About the
Author
Michael Edwards is
the Director of the Ford Foundation's Governance and Civil Society Unit in New
York, having worked in international development for the last twenty years,
including periods spent living and traveling in Latin America, Southern Africa
and South Asia. After a series of senior management positions with Oxfam and
Save the Children, he moved to Washington DC to work as a Senior Civil Society
Specialist in the NGO Unit of the World Bank. His writings have helped to shape
a more critical appreciation of the global role of civil society, and to break
down barriers between researchers and activists across the world. Michael was
educated in England at the universities of Oxford and London, and now lives with
his wife in the center of Manhattan.
New Rules
Events
September 12, 2003 –
Book Launch and Happy Hour with Michael Edwards author of Future Positive
(Washington, DC, USA)
Praise for Future Positive
"At last, a
hard-headed but soft-hearted vision of global co-operation - respecting our
differences, avoiding top-down 'solutions', expanding the number of voices at
the table, yet moving forward together on clear goals. This is an optimistic
book at a time when the global pessimists rule the intellectual roost"
Robert B. Reich,
University Professor of Social and Economic Policy, Brandeis University, and ex-U.S.
Secretary of Labor
"In addition to
making the links between the normative and the analytical, theory and practice,
international relations and world development, self interest and social
conscience, this book offers concrete proposals for change in a globalising
world and contributes to the much-needed repoliticisation of the discipline of
development studies" Helen Yanacopulos, Millennium
"Future Positive
grapples with a central dilemma of our times: the growing mismatch between a
globalizing economy and national political decisions, arguing persuasively for
new forms of global governance that are as flexible and decentralized as the new
economy itself."
Will Marshall,
President, Progressive Policy Institute
"This book belongs
to a small minority of analyses of world politics that are inspired yet modest,
deep yet readable. Edwards’ rich combination of personal resources generates
powerful insights and compelling prescriptions. However, Edwards does not preach
down; he shares his ideas in ways that leave the reader feeling enabled and
enthusiastic" Jan Art Scholte, International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction:
The Co-operative Imperative
Part One:
Looking Back
2. 1945 and All
That: A Brief History of International Co-operation
3. How do Countries
Grow? It’s the Polity, Stupid!
4. It’s Not Size
that Matters: Development Projects Examined
5. Matters of Life
and Death: The Record of Humanitarian Intervention
6. Summary: Sticks,
Carrots and Room to Manoeuvre
Part Two:
Looking Forward
7. Creativity plus
Opportunity: A New Formula for Foreign Aid
8. Humanising
Capitalism: Which Way Forward?
9. Light but Firm:
The Future of Global Governance
10. Building
Constituencies for Change: The Rise and Fall of Third-World Charity
11. The Getting of
Wisdom: Institutional Reform and Personal Revolution
12. Conclusion:
How Can I Help?
Future Positive: International Co-operation in the 21st Century
www.futurepositive.org
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