Informal Governance in World Politics. Edited by Kenneth W. Abbott and Thomas J. Biersteker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 319p.

Madison, Ian (2025) 'Informal Governance in World Politics. Edited by Kenneth W. Abbott and Thomas J. Biersteker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 319p.'. Perspectives on Politics, pp. 1-2. (In Press)

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Abstract

Guy Maddin’s film “Rumours” (2024) depicts a pillar of global governance taken to an absurd, apocalyptic extreme. G7 leaders meet at a forest retreat in Germany to produce a ‘draft provisional statement’ regarding an unspecified crisis. Fuelled by wine and personal squabbles, the result—an anodyne non-statement, the making of which they all clearly relish—contrasts sharply with a much more proximate issue: they have been abandoned by their handlers and are now being stalked by mummified Iron Age zombies. Things only get odder from there. The point? A thinly veiled allegory for climate change, “Rumours” articulates a widespread perception: our leaders, and their institutions of global governance, are incapable of confronting contemporary crises. They fiddle as the world burns.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	W General Medicine. Health Professions > W 32 Laws (General)
Faculty: Department:	Education
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592725000921
SWORD Depositor:	JISC Pubrouter
Depositing User:	JISC Pubrouter
Date Deposited:	19 Jun 2025 13:34
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2025 13:34
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/26830

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