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Edited by Katja Freistein, Research Group Leader, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Bettina Mahlert, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Sigrid Quack, Professor of Sociology and Managing Director and Christine Unrau, Research Group Leader, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

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This book examines the role of imagination in initiating, contesting and changing the pathways of global cooperation. Building on carefully contextualized empirical cases from diverse policy fields, regions and historical periods, it highlights the agency of a wide range of actors in reflecting on past and present experiences and imagining future ways of collective problem solving.

‘This exciting collection combines sharp theoretical analysis with a rich array of illuminating case studies to show the powerful role played by creative human imagination in shaping transformative processes of global cooperation. In departure from established understandings of global change as rigidly constrained by deterministic historical structures or rationalized institutional procedures, it makes a compelling case that processes of collective imagining – drawing together symbolic representations, emotions, and normative beliefs – can forge new cooperative pathways in confronting the challenges of 21st century world politics.’
– Terry Macdonald, University of Melbourne, Australia

‘This superb volume offers an innovative and inspired perspective on global cooperation that centres the work of the imagination as an essential driver of the processes through which unscripted cooperation pathways emerge and open up new trajectories of collective action. In doing so it delineates a more hopeful vision for a future that is not determined by the patterns and outcomes of the past, but driven by the converging aspirations of those willing to invent it.’
– Inanna Hamati-Ataya, University of Cambridge, UK