Criticizing Global Governance [Paperback]

The essays in this collection seek to reflect on global governance and to provide a better critical understanding of the various practices that fall under its rubric. The first part challenges the concept of global governance, the second part focuses on organizational and institutional aspects, and the last part examines the rule systems implemented by global governance practices. The vocabulary of (global) governance has become a serious contender to imagine world order in the post cold war world. Using different strategies of critique, the contributors argue that global governance denotes a political vocabulary where acts of definition themselves are political moves.Introduction; M.Lederer & P.Muller Inside Global Governance: New Borders of a Concept; K.Sp?th Global Governance as the Hegemonic Project of Transatlantic Civil Society; J.Friedrichs The Globe and the Ghetto; F.Johns Democratising Global Governance - Beyond the Domestic Analogy; H.Patom?ki Shifting Political Identities and Global Governance of the Justified Use of Force; A.Leander Global Governance through the Institutional Lense; M.Finger Global Governance and Domestic Politics: Fragmented Visions; B.Cali & A.Ergun Reconstructing the Balkans: A Global Governance Construct; R.Johnson The International Lawyer as Agent of Global Governance; A.L.Paulus Human Rights as Civil Religion: The Glue for Global Governance?; J.L.Owen Transnational Private Litigation and Transnational Governance; R.Wai

The world is governed - but how? This terrific collection of new voices from law and political science offers a range of innovative, provocative and fascinating answers to that question. They are united by skepticism about the conventional stories we tell ourselves about global governance - that ours is a world of anarchic politics, of networked legal regimes, or of market freedom beyond the reach of regulation. Methodologically diverse, sophisticated and altogether fresh, these probing and interdisclc"