The Global Governance Reader

by Wilkinson,Rorden

• ISBN13: 9780415332071
• ISBN10: 0415332079
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This unique account offers students and scholars a comprehensive and considered overview of the way in which the world is governed. It draws together 17 of the most significant works by leading specialists in the field, to explore the role of global institutions from the United Nations (UN) and NATO, to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Introductions to each article locate the readings within the broader global governance literature and provide a useful intellectual and historical context. Key content include: * The Concept of global Governance * Possibilities and Challenges * The Governance of Global Capitalism * Humanitarian Crisis * Finance and Development * Health and Environment * Global Civil Society Global Governanceis the ideal introduction to the key theories and issues behind one of the most significant emerging areas in world politics.

Table of Contents

About the contributors	viii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction: Concepts and Issues in Global Governance	1	(22)
Rorden Wilkinson
PART ONE Concepts	23	(164)
Global Governance: Exploring the Terrain	25	(1)
A New World	26	(19)
Governance in the Twenty-First Century	45	(23)
James N. Rosenau
Governance, Good Governance and Global Governance: Conceptual and Actual Challenges	68	(22)
Thomas G. Weiss
Global Governance: Silences, Possibilities, Challenges	89	(1)
Global Governance: Poorly Done and Poorly Understood	90	(15)
Craig N. Murphy
Humane Governance for the World: Reviving the Quest	105	(15)
Richard Falk
Global Governance and Democratic Accountability	120	(20)
Robert O. Keohane
Global Governance: Capitalist Imperative	139	(1)
Global Perestroika	140	(16)
Robert W. Cox
The Governance of Global Capitalism: A New Materialist Perspective	156	(18)
Paul Cammack
New Constitutionalism, Democratisation and Global Political Economy	174	(13)
Stephen Gill
PART TWO Issues	187	(154)
Global Governance: Humanitarian Crisis	189	(1)
Where Angels Fear to Tread: Trends in International Intervention	190	(14)
Michele Griffin
Governing the Borderlands: Decoding the Power of Aid	204	(14)
Mark Duffield
Global Governance: Finance and Development	217	(1)
Beyond the North-South Divide: The Two Tales of World Poverty	218	(21)
Jean-Philippe Therien
The Democratic Deficit in the Institutional Arrangements for Regulating Global Finance	239	(13)
Tony Porter
Global Governance: Health and Environment	251	(1)
Negotiating the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: An Updated Politics of Global Health Governance	252	(22)
Jeff Collin
Kelley Lee
Karen Bissell
Getting Climate Policy on Track After the Hague: An Update	274	(18)
Henry D. Jacoby
David M. Reiner
Global Governance: Civil Society	291	(1)
The Sovereign Limits of Global Civil Society: A Comparison of Ngo Participation in Un World Conferences on the Environment, Human Rights and Women	292	(30)
Ann Marie Clark
Elisabeth Jay Friedman
Kathryn Hochstetler
Civil Society and Democracy in Global Governance	322	(19)
Jan Aart Scholte
Index	341