Complex Sovereignty

by Grande, Edgar; Pauly, Louis W.

• ISBN13: 9780802038814
• ISBN10: 0802038816
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

The way humanity governs itself is today changing very rapidly. Profound transformations in structures of political authority are underway in Europe, North America, and beyond. Nation-states remain central, but they cannot address the most pressing problems facing their own citizens without moving away from traditional understandings of sovereignty itself. Complex Sovereigntycontends that just such a movement is underway.Editors Edgar Grande and Louis W. Pauly and the contributors to this volume elucidate the meaning of 'complex sovereignty' through a set of conceptual and empirical studies including governance in the European Union and North America, the emergence of private-public partnerships, the adaptation of established international organizations, and the search for innovative mechanisms to manage risk. They reveal a fascinating and vitally important struggle to give coherence to a complicated governing system of multiple and overlapping hierarchies. This is an original, collaborative study crossing the disciplines of political science, international relations, sociology, and political economy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Abbreviations	ix
1 Reconstituting Political Authority: Sovereignty, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy in a Transnational Order	3	(19)
LOUIS W. PAULY AND EDGAR GRANDE
2 World Risk Society and the Changing Foundations of Transnational Politics	22	(26)
ULRICH BECK
3 Restructuring World Society: The Contribution of Modern Systems Theory	48	(20)
MATHIAS ALBERT
4 Governance: A Garbage Can Perspective	68	(25)
B. GUY PETERS
5 Globality and Transnational Policymaking in Agriculture: Complexity, Contradiction, and Conflict	93	(27)
WILLIAM D. COLEMAN
6 Financial Crises, the United Nations, and Transnational Authority	120	(26)
LOUIS W. PAULY
7 Reconstituting Political Authority in Europe: Transnational Regulatory Networks and the Informalization of Governance in the European Union	146	(22)
BURKARD EBERLEIN AND EDGAR GRANDE
8 The Primitive Realities of North America's Transnational Governance	168	(27)
STEPHEN CLARKSON WITH SARAH DAVIDSON LADLY, MEGAN MERWART, AND CARLTON THORNE
9 Public-Private Partnerships: Effective and Legitimate Tools of Transnational Governance?	195	(22)
TANJA A. BÖRZEL AND THOMAS RISSE
10 The Private Production of Public Goods: Private and Public Norms in Global Governance	217	(21)
TONY PORTER
11 Contested Political Authority, Risk Society, and the Transatlantic Divide in the Regulation of Genetic Engineering	238	(23)
GRACE SKOGSTAD
12 The Informalization of Transnational Governance: A Threat to Democratic Government	261	(24)
MICHAEL TH. GREVEN
13 Complex Sovereignty and the Emergence of Transnational Authority	285	(16)
EDGAR GRANDE AND LOUIS W. PAULY
References	301	(32)
Contributors	333	(2)
Index	335

Excerpts

"Complex Sovereignty is an original, collaborative study crossing the disciplines of political science, international relations, sociology, and political economy. The essays in this volume examine the meaning of 'complex sovereignty' through a set of conceptual and empirical studies on such topics as governance in the European Union and North America, the emergence of public-private partnerships, the adaptation of established international organizations, and the search for innovative mechanisms to manage risk. Together they elucidate a fascinating and vitally important struggle to give coherence to a complicated governing system of multiple and overlapping hierarchies."--BOOK JACKET.