Global Public Leadership for an Inclusive and Innovative Future: Issues, Models, and Strategies in the Era of Globalization 4.1 (Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy)

Global Public Leadership for an Inclusive and Innovative Future analyzes the role leadership plays in balancing the competing forces of economic and social integration and the potential threats to sovereignty and cultural identity that result from globalization. This book argues that the current globalization moment is better understood not through the contested and often oversimplified notion of “deglobalization”, but as Globalization 4.1, a phase characterized by resistance to, and recalibration of, some of the negative consequences of global interconnection and interdependence.As the authors note, public skepticism toward major technological transformations is not new; each prior phase of globalization has its own forms of pushback.What distinguishes the present moment is that the very technological advances associated with Globalization 4.0, along with the social, economic, and political disruptions they have produced, have equipped critics with powerful tools to mobilize growingse