The Great DisruptionISBN: 978-0-7456-3663-4
Hardcover
272 pages
September 2007, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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Sociological Review
"The main strength of The Great Disruption is that it
shows how the outsourcing of authority to the expert and to
international bodies leads to today’s peculiarly risk-averse
and regulation-obsessed policymaking."
Frank Furedi, sp!ked review of books
"A wide-ranging erudite exploration of contemporary social
change that presents a compelling case for refashioning governance
of an emergent more global world. Zaki Laïdi asks key
questions and offers innovative answers: about rethinking
sovereignty, reconfiguring the state, providing public goods and
interrogating alterglobalism."
Jan Aart Scholte, University of Warwick
"This original and challenging text is based on solid research
and scholarship. The author offers challenging redefinitions of key
concepts and every section contains a wealth of insights, new
arguments and interesting linkages. A key part of the overall
argument is Laïdi's contrast between the approaches of the
European Union and the United States to globalization and its
governance and the problems and contradictions of each approach.
The analysis is always nuanced, sensitive to institutional
differences, aware of hierarchies of power and different positions
in global divisions of labour, and committed to the search for
alternatives to the current structures of globalization and their
consequences."
Bob Jessop, Lancaster University