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contents
preface and acknowledgements vii
list of abbreviations x
notes on contributors xiii
introduction: global governance or
global governances? 1
james n. rosenau
1. governance in the twenty-first century 7
james n. rosenau
2. actors, arenas, and issues in global governance 41
klaus dingwerth and philipp pattberg
3. global governance as international organization 66
thomas g. weiss and annelies z. kamran
4. global governance as configurations of
state/non-state activity 87
tony porter
S. global governance as liberal hegemony lOS
jorg friedrichs
6. global governance as public policy
networks and partnerships 123
julia steets
7. global governance as sector-specific management 139
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8. global governance as a summative phenomenon 160
w. andy knight
9. conclusion: the global governance prospect 189
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index 205
preface and acknowledgements
When the report of the Commission on Global Governance appeared
in 1995, the term 'global governance' had already been in circulation
for a number of years, thanks to the work of forward-looking scholars
who were fascinated with the global dimensions of both order and
turbulence; with the growing evidence that the principal contours of
planetary stability and sustainability were not the preserve of states and
the international system; and by the evidence that the global qualities
of the human condition suggested a nascent global politiCS as much
as a global arena. In the same year as the Commission's report, James
Rosenau published a seminal article, 'Global Governance in the Twenty
first Century,' in the inaugural issue of the journal Global Governance.
That article not only consolidated much of the disparate work on global
governance up to that point, but also set out the themes which have
proved to be such a reliable guide to the most pertinent 'who, what,
and how?' global governance questions. It has proved rich in primary
insights for both theorists and for those with more empirical and issue
specific concerns.
I am very grateful to Professor Rosenau for allowing his original art
icle to be reprinted here as Chapter 1 and for providing the Introduction
to this collection. The title of his Introduction, 'Global Governance or
Global Governances?' carries a double meaning. The first is a recogni
tion now well-established in the global governance literature: That in
its summative form, the term 'global governance' can be employed to
depict the overall order of the world - the outcome of innumerable gov
ernances of varying degrees of inclusiveness, legitimacy and effective
ness. The second - global governances plural - not only acknowledges
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our attempts to regulate sector-specific forms of human activity on a
global scale (trade, finance) or the regulation of global conditions (the
planetary environment, health), but also that the actors, mechanisms,
goals and outcomes of global governance are not detached and techno
cratic, but are intensely political.
This book is thematic, with an emphasis on developed understand
ings of global governance as a mode of political action - that is, as forms
of steering, regulating and controlling. There are no chapter-length sec
toral studies; instead, the contributors cite specific structures, actors or
instances for illustrative purposes. Chapter 2, 'Actors, Arenas and Issues
in Global Governance', by Klaus Dingwerth and Philipp Pattberg, com
plements and updates James Rosenau's foundational work and provides
a particularly clear and well-delineated outline of the scope of current
global governance scholarship. The central chapters each present a per
spective on global governance as a form of activity in which the actors
and structures also have meaning beyond dedicated, functional gov
ernance roles. The purpose of the book is to bridge the more theoret
ical studies of global governance and those devoted to specific issues.
My hope is that a wider appreciation of the global dynamics, porous
boundaries, rapid reconfigurations of identities and allegiances and the
intensification of all forms of human relatedness that are now shap
ing our world will draw more scholars into work on global governance,
whatever their primary disciplinary perspective.
Doubtless there are those who view the field of global governance as
a minor tributary of International Relations; and still others who regard
it as an interesting but largely abstract approach to world politics and
human security. However, as the second year of global financial turbu
lence threatens to develop from recession to depression, it is difficult
to view the concerted actions of states, international organizations and
private companies to stave off the worst possibilities as anything other
than a form of global governance - albeit belated and rectificatory. Yet
there was little in the extensive literature on the global governance of
finance before 2008 which suggested that the complexities, electronic
ally mediated risk-taking and tight coupling between financial actors at
every level around the world had resulted in a system of systems both
unstable and unsustainable. As part of conceiving and enacting forms of
global governance that will diminish the present turbulence, we must,
of course, confront the deficiencies of what passed as adequate global
ordering and regulation in this field. But at the same time, all scholars
engaged in the study of global governance, whatever their particular
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focus, might well consider the implications of the credit crunch and
its aftermath for global governance studies. In a world so intensely glo
balized and on unsustainable environmental trajectories, it is hardly
plausible to suppose that recent events require only a wholesale recon
sideration of what does or should comprise the effective governance of
global finance.
In their particulars at least, the prospects for global governance at
the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century are not what we
could have discerned at its threshold; and for the immediate future, the
challenges will tax more than what James Rosenau described as 'one's
appreciation of nuance and one's tolerance of ambiguity' - much as
those though will continue to feature. But James Rosenau's willingness
to engage with a remarkable range of troubling, disquieting and sur
prising features of the human drama - fully, imaginatively and with
analytical acuity - remain an inspiration to all of us who have joined
him in this enterprise.
My sincere thanks to the contributors to this volume, all of whom
have many pressing calls on their time and energies, despite which all
were enthusiastically committed to this project and greatly reduced
the editorial tasks that usually go with such an undertaking. I would
also like to acknowledge that Chapter I, written by James N. Rosenau,
first appeared in Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and
International Organizations, Vol. I, No. I, Copyright © 1995 by Lynne
Rienner Publishers, Inc., used with permission of the publisher.
