Global Governance

This unique contribution to global studies advances a multidisciplinary theory that the governments of all human societies are the tenuous outcome of the competing solutions to the Imperatives of Order, Welfare, and Legitimacy (OWL).

Edward A. Kolodziej is Emeritus Research Professor of Political Science and Founder and Director of the Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.

1. Toward a Theory of Governance: Pursuit of Order, Welfare, and Legitimacy (OWL) 2. The Rise of the Liberal Democratic Solution 3. The Fall of the Liberal Democratic Solution 4. China and the Imperative of Order 5. China and the Imperative of Welfare 6. China and the Imperative of Legitimacy 7. The Russian OWL Solution for Global Governance 8. A Modest Way Forward