Humanity at Risk: The Need for Global Governance

Humanity at Risk compares diverse approaches to the theme of global threats using the tools of philosophy, critical theory, and political thought alongside more practical, socio-political observations. By defining the idea of "global risk" more specifically, Editors Innerarity and Solana, and their contributors, believe we can understand how these risks should be evaluated, predicted, and managed within the framework of democratic societies.The goal of this book is to highlight more precisely the necessity, in the face of new global risks, for new governance at a national, European, and global level.

Daniel Innerarity is Professor of Political Philosophy and Ikerbasque Researcher at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. He is also Director of the Instituto de Gobernanza Democrática (www.globernance.org) and part-time Professor at the European University Institute, Italy.

Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Reconstitution (IGRec), Berlin, Germany. His writings span the fields of ecological theory, phenomenology, and political thought. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and monographs, including Plant-Thinking (2013), The Philosopher's Plant (2014), Dust (2016), Energy Dreams (2017), Heidegger (2018), Political Categories (2019), Pyropolitics (2015, 2020), Dump Philosophy (2020); Hegel's Energy (2021), Green Mass (2021), Philosophy for Passengers (2022), The Phoenix Complex (2023), Time Is a Plant (2023), and, with Edward S. Casey, Plants in Place (2024). More information at michaelmarder.org.

Javier Solana is president of ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics, Spain, and distinguished fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution. He is also member of the board of the International Crisis Group and the European Council on Foreign Relations. He served as Secretary General of NATO, as the European Union's High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and as Secretary General of the Council of the European Union.