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Global Governance in a World of Change

Global Governance in a World of Change
Open Access

Global Governance in a World of Change

Michael N. Barnett, George Washington University, Washington DC
Jon C. W. Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Kal Raustiala, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
December 2021
Available
Paperback
9781108824118

    Global governance has come under increasing pressure since the end of the Cold War. In some issue areas, these pressures have led to significant changes in the architecture of governance institutions. In others, institutions have resisted pressures for change. This volume explores what accounts for this divergence in architecture by identifying three modes of governance: hierarchies, networks, and markets. The authors apply these ideal types to different issue areas in order to assess how global governance has changed and why. In most issue areas, hierarchical modes of governance, established after World War II, have given way to alternative forms of organization focused on market or network-based architectures. Each chapter explores whether these changes are likely to lead to more or less effective global governance across a wide range of issue areas. This provides a novel and coherent theoretical framework for analysing change in global governance. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

    •  Provides a single, coherent framework by which to analyze changes in global governance
    • Introduces the idea of modes of governance to global governance as it examines and compares three different kinds: market, network, and hierarchy
    •  Provides broad subject matter coverage by exploring several issue areas and their global governance structures
    • This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

    Reviews & endorsements

    ‘By far the best volume on the subject of global governance in decades.’ John Gerard Ruggie, Berthold Beitz Research Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs, Harvard University

    ‘Observers of global governance are like viewers of a kaleidoscope, eyes transfixed by novel patterns flashing before their eyes. Global Governance in a World of Change eschews parsimonious theory but seeks to help dazzled observers by using the concepts of hierarchy, markets, and networks to describe ‘modes of governance.’’ Robert O. Keohane, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

    ‘This edited volume features comprehensive and insightful analyses by leading scholars of how the modes of global governance have changed across policy areas as diverse as health, climate change, arms control, trade, and humanitarianism. Essential reading for anyone interested in the possibilities and limits of collective solutions to the world's most pressing problems.’ Erik Voeten, Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Justice in World Affairs, Georgetown University

    ‘This compelling, well-structured book provides a roadmap for studying changes in modes of global governance-hierarchy, networks, and markets-across issues, together with the factors that explain them. Conceptually tight, the book casts a new lens on global governance at this time of uncertainty, rapid change, and multifaceted, overlapping global problems.’ Gregory Shaffer, Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Irvine School of Law

    'The list of contributor’s reads like the who’s who in Global Governance research. The content delivers what we expect. This book pushes the Global Governance agenda by focusing on modes of governance. It is collaborative work at its best and a real achievement.' Michael Zürn, Director, Global Governance, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and Professor of International Relations, Free University Berlin

    'Never has Global Governance been more fractured and less effective. And never has it been more important as the world emerges from COVID at a dramatically unequal pace that is testimony to the failure of Global Governance. Global Governance in a World of Change is an uncompromising look at challenges and solutions to global governance across hierarchies, networks, and markets. Never has a book been more timely and more important.' Janice Gross Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

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    Product details

    December 2021
    Paperback
    9781108824118
    300 pages
    228 × 151 × 22 mm
    0.578kg
    10 b/w illus. 3 tables
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction: the modes of global governance Michael Barnett, Jon Pevehouse and Kal Raustiala
    • 1. Governance shifts in security: military and security services and small arms compared Deborah Avant
    • 2. The Bretton woods moment: hierarchies, networks, and markets in the long twentieth century Miles Kahler
    • 3. Climate change governance: past, present and (hopefully) future Jessica Green
    • 4. A shadow of its former self: hierarchy and global trade Susanne Mueller and Jon Pevehouse
    • 5. The humanitarian club: hierarchy, networks, and exclusion Michael Barnett
    • 6. The supply of informal international governance: hierarchy plus networks in global governance Michael Manulak and Duncan Snidal
    • 7. Global governance, expert networks, and 'Fragile States' Leonard Seabrooke and Ole Jacob Sending
    • 8. Global health: a centralized network in search of hierarchy Surie Moon
    • 9. The governance of International Humanitarian Law: a century-old hybrid model Anne Quintin and Vincent Bernard
    • 10. Clean energy and the hybridization of global governance Lilliana Andonova
    • 11. Legitimacy and modes of global governance Jonas Tallberg
    • Conclusion: global governance and institutional diversity Orfeo Fioretos.
      Contributors
    • Michael Barnett, Jon Pevehouse, Kal Raustiala, Deborah Avant, Miles Kahler, Jessica Green, Susanne Mueller, Michael Manulak, Duncan Snidal, Leonard Seabrooke, Ole Jacob Sending, Surie Moon, Anne Quintin, Vincent Bernard, Lilliana Andonova, Jonas Tallberg, Orfeo Fioretos

    • Editors
    • Michael N. Barnett , George Washington University, Washington DC

      Michael N. Barnett is University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at the George Washington University. His previously published books include Rules for the World: International Organizations in World Politics (co-authored with Martha Finnemore, 2004) which won several prizes, and Power in Global Governance (co-edited with Raymond Duvall, Cambridge University Press, 2004).

    • Jon C. W. Pevehouse , University of Wisconsin, Madison

      Jon Pevehouse is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in Political Science and Public Policy. His research interests are in the field of international relations and political methodology. He is the recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award and multiple teaching awards. He served as the editor of International Organization.

    • Kal Raustiala , University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law

      Kal Raustiala is the Promise Institute Professor of Comparative and International Law at UCLA School of Law and Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. His previously books include Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? (2009) and The Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments (co-edited with David G. Victor and Eugene B. Skolnikoff, 1998).