Why Cooperate?

Scott Barrett is Professor and Director of International Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He was previously an advisor to the International Task Force on Global Public Goods, and drew upon his work for the Task Force in preparing this book. He wrote the book while on sabbatical as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University. His previous book, Environment and Statecraft, was published by OUP in paperback in 2005.

An idealistic as well as sensible prescription for how to tackle in a practical manner the genuinely complex issues of our new global era

• Foreword by Ernesto Zedillo ; Introduction: The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods ; 1. Single Best Efforts: Global Public Goods that Can Be Supplied Unilaterally or Minilaterally ; 2. Weakest Links: Global Public Goods that Depend on the States that Contribute the Least ; 3. Aggregate Efforts: Global Public Goods that Depend on the Combined Efforts of All States ; 4. Financing and Burden Sharing: Paying for Global Public Goods ; 5. Mutual Restraint: Agreeing What States Ought Not to Do ; 6. Coordination and Global Standards: Agreeing What States Ought to Do ; 7. Development: Do Global Public Goods Help Poor States? ; Conclusions: Institutions for the Supply of Global Public Goods