{"id":15673,"date":"2013-10-09T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2013\/10\/20131009_gridlock_stato_cooperazione_globale-2\/"},"modified":"2013-10-09T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:27:12","slug":"20131009_gridlock_stato_cooperazione_globale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2013\/10\/20131009_gridlock_stato_cooperazione_globale\/","title":{"rendered":"Book presentation at the Farnesina: the \u201cGridlock\u201d in global cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>\u201cGridlock\u201d is the concept behind a book written by 3 eminent university teachers and international relations experts: Thomas Hale (University of Oxford), David Held (Durham University) and Kevin Young (University of Massachusetts Amherst). The book examines the gridlock in the complex global diplomatic web and the question of \u201cWhy Global Cooperation is Failing when We Need It Most\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>A reflection on governance that concerns Europe too, says Dass\u00f9<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>The book was presented today, 9 October 2013, in the Farnesina Library in the presence of Deputy Foreign Minister Marta Dass\u00f9 and one of the co-authors, David Held, one of the United Kingdom\u2019s leading experts in international relations. The apparent paralysis of global cooperation and international relations, which is having immediate effects on the standstill in major negotiations on security, economic and environmental issues, is analysed in the book, which also suggests innovate governance instruments to help international cooperation overcome the current impasse and meet the challenges of our times. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><A name=_GoBack><\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cWe live in a multi-polar and highly complex world with institutions deeply rooted in the era following the Second World War. Today, those institutions are not sufficiently representative or flexible to meet global challenges\u201d, underscored Held. He pointed out that the book is \u201can attempt to understand why we are unable to achieve global cooperation in today\u2019s world\u201d. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>His words were echoed by Deputy Minister Marta Dass\u00f9, who commented that the book \u201caddresses the question of why we are unable to manage these highly complex international problems, which are global in nature and no longer between or internal to states or trans-national, in an effective manner. It is therefore a reflection on governance, a reflection that also concerns Europe\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGridlock\u201d is the concept behind a book written by 3 eminent university teachers and international relations experts: Thomas Hale (University of Oxford), David Held (Durham University) and Kevin Young (University of Massachusetts Amherst). The book examines the gridlock in the complex global diplomatic web and the question of \u201cWhy Global Cooperation is Failing when We [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,399],"class_list":["post-15673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-vice-ministri-e-sottosegretari-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}