Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Power Shifts and Global Governance
- Part One Theoretical and Analytical Reflections on Global Governance
- 1 Introduction: Global Governance: Issues, Trends and Challenges
- 2 Four Lessons from the Present Global Financial Crisis for the 21st Century: An Essay on Global Transformation from a European Perspective
- 3 Global Civil Society: Emergent Forms of Cosmopolitan Democracy and Justice
- 4 Institutional and Policy Implications of International Public Goods: The Case of Global Commons
- 5 Economic Challenges for Global Governance
- 6 The Rule of Law in Multilateral Institutions and International Aid for Development: Judicial Reform in the Global Order
- Part Two Power Shifts, Regional Experiences and Global Challenges
- Part Three Case Studies in Global Governance
- Notes
1 - Introduction: Global Governance: Issues, Trends and Challenges
from Part One - Theoretical and Analytical Reflections on Global Governance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Power Shifts and Global Governance
- Part One Theoretical and Analytical Reflections on Global Governance
- 1 Introduction: Global Governance: Issues, Trends and Challenges
- 2 Four Lessons from the Present Global Financial Crisis for the 21st Century: An Essay on Global Transformation from a European Perspective
- 3 Global Civil Society: Emergent Forms of Cosmopolitan Democracy and Justice
- 4 Institutional and Policy Implications of International Public Goods: The Case of Global Commons
- 5 Economic Challenges for Global Governance
- 6 The Rule of Law in Multilateral Institutions and International Aid for Development: Judicial Reform in the Global Order
- Part Two Power Shifts, Regional Experiences and Global Challenges
- Part Three Case Studies in Global Governance
- Notes
Summary
The origins of this book lie in the workshop of the Global Governance Research Network at the German Development Institute (DIE) in January 2007. The workshop expectedly brought together a brilliant, energetic and diverse group of senior scholars, policy makers and researchers from north and south setting forth a fruitful and productive process of introspection and reflection on emerging architectures of global governance. Encouraged by the instant consensus around some of the core ideas of the Global Governance Network, we immediately formulated a publishing project that understandably promised not only to examine ‘major power shifts’, but also broadened its net to include emerging powers and also ‘global civil society actors’ whom James Rosenau provocatively called ‘sovereignty free actors’ as major constituencies of the new global order (Rosenau 1990). As the world has become increasingly more globalized, more complex and also more vulnerable at this point of time, we undertake the task of comprehending and exploring political, economic, social and environmental processes of power shifts and prospects of deliberative democracy on a global scale. There is no doubt that global capitalism has come to witness one of the darkest and gloomiest periods in recent world history. Underlying this existential crisis is a deeper structural, political and moral crisis in the existing structures of global governance. Undoubtedly, the days of “casino capitalism” and “single superpower” are over as the world is keenly waiting for what Karl Polanyi would have called another ‘great transformation’.
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- Power Shifts and Global GovernanceChallenges from South and North, pp. 3 - 30Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2010
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