Transformations in Global and Regional Social Policies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Global and Regional Social Policy Transformations: Contextualizing the Contribution of Bob Deacon

   • Paul Stubbs, Alexandra Kaasch

   Pages 1-16

3. The Socialization of Regionalism and the Regionalization of Social Policy: Contexts, Imperatives, and Challenges

   • Nicola Yeates

   Pages 17-43

4. Global Economic Downturn and Social Protection in East Asia: Pathways of Global and Local Interactions

   • Huck-ju Kwon

   Pages 44-64

5. Common Health Policy Interests and the Politics of Rights, Regulation, and Redistribution

   • Meri Koivusalo

   Pages 65-84

6. Global Social Justice, Ethics, and the Crisis of Care

   • Fiona Williams

   Pages 85-107

7. Climate Change, Social Policy, and Global Governance

   • Ian Gough

   Pages 108-133

8. Poverty and Climate Change: The Three Tasks of Transformative Global Social Policy

   • Asunción Lera St. Clair, Victoria Lawson

   Pages 134-152

9. Antagonism and Accommodation: The Labor-IMF/World Bank Relationship

   • Robert O’Brien

   Pages 153-174

10. Grasping the Social Impact of Global Social Policy: How Neo-liberal Policies Have Influenced Social Action in Morocco

    • Shana Cohen

    Pages 175-200

11. Toward a Transformative Global Social Policy?

    • Bob Deacon

    Pages 201-217

12. Back Matter

    Pages 218-223

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This book discusses key issues in global and regional social policy, exploring Bob Deacon's pioneering approach to regulation, rights and redistribution. It addresses the role of international actors in shaping social policy and discusses the problems and possibilities of new alliances for global social justice.

• climate change
• ethics
• health policy
• Nation
• politics
• poverty
• social justice
• social policy
• transformation

• University of Bremen, Germany

  Alexandra Kaasch

• The Institute of Economics, Croatia

  Paul Stubbs

Bob Deacon, University of Sheffield, UK Shana Cohen, University of Cambridge, UK Ian Gough, University of Bath, UK Meri Koivusalo, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland Huck-ju Kwon, Seoul National University, Korea Victoria Lawson, University of Washington, US Robert O'Brien, McMaster University, Canada Asunción Lera St. Clair, International Centre for Climate and Environmental Research, Norway Fiona Williams, University of Leeds, UK Nicola Yeates, The Open University, UK

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