Table Of ContentGlobal Governance,
Conflict and
Resistance
Feargal Cochrane, Rosaleen Duffy
and Jan Selby
Global Governance, Conflict and Resistance
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Global Governance, Conflict
and Resistance
Edited by
Feargal Cochrane
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations,
Lancaster University, UK
Rosaleen Duffy
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations,
Lancaster University, UK
and
Jan Selby
Lecturer in International Politics,
University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK
Editorial matter and selection ©Feargal Cochrane,
Rosaleen Duffy and Jan Selby 2003
Chs 1 and 7 © Jan Selby 2003
Ch 8 © Feargal Cochrane 2003
Ch 9 © Rosaleen Duffy 2003
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Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations xi
1 Introduction 1
Jan Selby
Part I States, War and Capitalism 19
2 Global Liberal Governance: Networks, Resistance and War 21
Michael Dillon
3 Global Governance and State Collapse 41
Christopher Clapham
4 Global Governance and Conflict Prevention 59
Hugh Miall
5 Against Global Governance? Tracing the Lineage
of the Anti-Globalisation Movement 78
Peter Wilkin
Part II Global Governance in Post-Conflict Zones 97
6 Global Governance and Resistance in Post-War
Transition: The Case of Eastern Slavonia and Bosnia 99
Judith Large
7 Governance and Resistance in Palestine: Simulations,
Confrontations,Sumoud 118
Jan Selby
8 Bowling Together within a Divided Community:
Civil Society and the Northern Ireland Conflict 135
Feargal Cochrane
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Part III Resistance to Global Regimes 153
9 Global Environmental Governance and Local Resistance:
The Global Trade in Ivory 155
Rosaleen Duffy
10 Global Economic Governance in the Information
Age: Counter-Hegemonic Challenges and
Sub-Hegemonic Adaptations in East Asia 174
Ngai-Ling Sum
11 A Provocative Dependence? The Global Financial
System and Small Island Tax Havens 194
Mark P. Hampton and John Christensen
12 Conclusion: Global Governance, Conflict and Resistance 216
Rosaleen Duffy and Feargal Cochrane
Bibliography 227
Index 247
Notes on Contributors
John Christensen is an applied economist who was employed for
11 years as an economic adviser to the States of Jersey. During that
period he made a detailed study of the industrial structure of that
island’s economy, covering in particular the growth of the off-shore
finance centre and the structural decline of the tourism and agricul-
ture sectors. In 1998 he left Jersey to take up a post as a Director
of Menas Associates, a political and economic research group in the
United Kingdom.
Christopher Clapham was Professor of Politics and International
Relations at Lancaster University until the end of 2002, and is currently
an associate of the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University. He
has written extensively on African politics, including Africa and the
International System: the politics of state survival (1996), and African
Guerrillas(ed., 1998).
Feargal Cochrane is a Lecturer within the Department of Politics and
International Relations at Lancaster University. His research focuses on
Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora, NGOs and civil society, and emerg-
ing peace processes within divided societies. His latest book is People
Power? The role of the voluntary and community sector in the Northern
Ireland conflict, 2002.
Michael Dillon is Professor of Politics at Lancaster University and
Associate Fellow of The Royal Institute for International Affairs. He is
the author of several books on politics, defence and security, and is cur-
rently completing The Liberal Way of War. He publishes in political and
cultural theory as well as international relations and security.
International editor of Taking on the Political (a political theory book
series), he also co-edits The Journal for Cultural Researchand is currently
directing a two-year research project, Knowledge Resourcing for Civil
Contingencies, funded by the ESRC’s Domestic Responses to Terrorism
initiative.
Rosaleen Duffy is a Lecturer within the Department of Politics and
International Relations at Lancaster University. Her research interests
include global environmental politics, tourism and global governance.
She is author of Killing for Conservation(2000) and A Trip Too Far(2002),
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as well as co-author of Tourism and Ethics (2003). Recently, she was
Principal Investigator of an ESRC funded project centred on the politics
of trans-frontier conservation in Southern Africa and Central America.
Mark P. Hampton is a Lecturer in the School of Management at the
University of Surrey and has published in academic journals including
World Development, Third World Quarterly, Environment and Planning A,
Crime, Law and Social Change, Geographische Zeitschrift, Human Relations,
andAnnals of Tourism Research. He is also author of The Offshore Interface:
Tax Havens in the Global Economy, 1996. He has also edited (with Jason
Abbott)Offshore Finance Centres and Tax Havens(1999).
Judith Large is a consultant/practitioner working in conflict research,
analysis, policy, education and training. Her particular interests are the
prevention and reduction of violent conflict, and participative design
for the involvement of broad-based representation in peace-building.
She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Richardson Institute of Peace
Studies, Lancaster University.
Hugh Miallis a Reader in Peace and Conflict Research and Director of
the Richardson Institute at Lancaster University. He is a specialist in con-
flict prevention and is the co-author of Contemporary Conflict Resolution.
Jan Selbyis a Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at the
University of Wales Aberystwyth. He is author of Water, Power and Politics
in the Middle East: The Other Israeli–Palestinian Conflict(2003).
Ngai-Ling Sum is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
in the University of Lancaster. Her main research interests are globali-
sation, global economic governance, and informational capitalism.
She has published in such journals as Economy and Society, Capital and
Class, Urban Studies, Critical Asian Studies, and Das Argument. She has also
co-edited Globalisation, Regionalisation and Cross-Border Regions (2002)
(IPE Series) with Marcus Perkmann.
Peter Wilkin is a Senior Lecturer the Department of Politics and
International Relations at Lancaster University. His publications
include:Noam Chomsky: On Power, Knowledge and Human Nature(1997);
The Political Economy of Global Communication(2001); and he is also co-
editor of Globalisation and the South(1997);Globalisation, Human Security
and the African Experience (1998). He is currently editing a book, Global
Communication and Social Change: Into the C21(forthcoming 2004).
Acknowledgements
This book began life as a series of informal conversations between
colleagues within the Department of Politics and International Relations
at Lancaster University around the theme of global governance, its mul-
tiple forms and its various sites of resistance. The final version of this
book emerged from a seminar series convened by the editors, which
brought together a wide variety of our research interests within the
Department. Our aim was to examine various conceptualisations of
global governance and specifically to explore what is being governed,
how it is governed and what the response is to such governance at the
local level.
We are indebted to all the contributors for their commitment to this
project over a two-year period, and we hope that the energetic intellec-
tual debate that these discussions engendered, has made its way into the
chapters of this edited collection.
We would also like to thank our colleagues within the Department of
Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University for their
help and support during the course of this project. The following people
deserve a particular mention: Gordon Hands, Head of Department in
Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University, who pro-
vided essential support at the outset of the project and attended book
seminars when he had a thousand other things to do; Susan Riches,
Trish Demery, Christine Brown and Maureen Worthington, the secretar-
ial team in Politics and International Relations at Lancaster, for their
invaluable help during the course of the project and especially while the
manuscript was being collated; our colleagues Alan Warburton and Ann
McAleer at Lancaster University, for their fortitude and patience in lis-
tening to frequent reports on the progress of the project; Professor
Robert McKinlay, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, as well as
Rachel Price and the Friends Fundat Lancaster University, for providing
financial assistance that allowed us to hold a half-day workshop for con-
tributors to the collection; and Tracy Sartin and Graham Smith,
research students within the Department for their help in proof-reading
and collating the final version of the manuscript. We are extremely
thankful to them and to the rest of the research student community in
the department for their participation and interest in the project.
Thanks also to Elaine Lowe of the Department of International Politics,
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