Contending Perspectives on Global Governance: Coherence and Contestation

by Ba; Alice D.

• ISBN13: 9780415356756
• ISBN10: 041535675X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"Global governance" is fast becoming a ubiquitous term, often weakly understood and rendered meaningless by overlapping or mutually exclusive perspectives. This unique volume challenges such oversimplification by exploring commonalities and differences in existing the understanding of global governance, presenting a comprehensive, multiple range of thinking across international relations and social science in general. Contending Perspectives on Global Governance brings together scholars from a variety of analytical perspectives including theorists of Social Constructivism, Liberal Imperialism and Realism, catalyzing debate and discussion to present a fuller picture of global governance.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Preface and acknowledgements	ix
1 Introduction: coherence and contestation	1	(14)
MATTHEW J. HOFFMANN AND ALICE D. BA
PART I Confronting global governance with established perspectives	15	(114)
2 Realist global governance: revisiting cave! hic dragones and beyond	17	(22)
JENNIFER STERLING-FOLKER
3 Global governance, class, hegemony: a historical materialist perspective	39	(18)
HENK OVERBEEK
4 Global governance and hegemony in the modern world system	57	(15)
GIOVANNI ARRIGHI
5 Global governance: an English School perspective	72	(16)
TIM DUNNE
6 Regime theory and the quest for global governance	88	(22)
ORAN R. YOUNG
7 What's global about global governance? A constructivist account	110	(21)
MATTHEW J. HOFFMANN
PART II Global governance as catalyst for new perspectives	129	(139)
8 Global governance as disaggregated complexity	131	(23)
JAMES N. ROSENAU
9 The European human-rights regime as a case study in the emergence of global governance	154	(24)
LESLIE FRIEDMAN GOLDSTEIN AND CORNEL BAN
10 A private-authority perspective on global governance	178	(12)
TIMOTHY J. SINCLAIR
11 Contested spaces: the politics of regional and global governance	190	(23)
ALICE D. BA
12 Global civil society and global governance	213	(18)
ROBERT O'BRIEN
13 Liberal imperialism as global-governance perspective	231	(18)
DANIEL GREEN
14 Contending perspectives on global governance: dialogue and debate	249	(19)
MATTHEW J. HOFFMANN AND ALICE D. BA
Index	268