Transformations in Global and Regional Social Policies

The study of supranational, regional and global social policy has grown apace in the last fifteen years. Bringing together some of the leading scholars in the field, the book explores key issues in diverse aspects of global and regional social policy and offers challenging interpretations of the future prospects for global social justice. Bob Deacon's framing of the subject in terms of regulation, redistribution and rights is explored in relation to health care, labor market policies, global care chains, and climate change. Other contributions discuss the prospects for progressive regional social policies, social policy and international organizations in East Asia, and the emerging role of the middle class in global social policy. Concluding reflections by Bob Deacon discuss the need to add resource mobilization and relationality to the traditional concerns of global and regional social policy. The book provides an overview of global and regional social policy studies and addresses key themes for the future.

Alexandra Kaasch is Senior Researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany. She is editor of the Global Social Policy Digest and recently co-authored The Welfare State as Crisis Manager (with Peter Starke and Franca Van Hooren).

Paul Stubbs is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia. His recent publications include Social Policy and International Interventions in South East Europe (co-edited with Bob Deacon).