Synopses & Reviews
This volume provides forward-looking, critical perspectives on the crisis of global governance. Featuring new, original and imaginative reflections, world leaders in law, sociology, politics, economics and international studies, interrogate global governance as it is and as it ought to be. It asks: What are the principal forces, structures, movements and ideas shaping global governance under conditions of global crisis? And what are the likely prospects for transformations in the theory and practice of global governance? The contributors highlight alternative imaginaries and social forces harnessing new organizational and political forms to counter and displace dominant strategies of rule. In so doing, they suggest that to meaningfully address intensifying economic, ecological and ethical crises of the early 21st century in ways more consistent with greater social justice, democracy and the integrity biosphere will require far more effective, legitimate and far-sighted forms of global governance.
Synopsis
The contributors highlight alternative imaginaries and social forces harnessing new organizational and political forms to counter and displace dominant strategies of rule. They suggest that to address intensifying economic, ecological and ethical crises far more effective, legitimate and far-sighted forms of global governance are required.
About the Author
Stephen Gill is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, York University, Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Distinguished Senior Scholar in International Political Economy of the International Studies Association. He has been a visiting professor at several universities, including: UCLA, NYU, University of California at Santa Barbara, Tokyo and Helsinki.
Table of Contents
1. Reimagining the Future - Some Critical Reflections; Stephen Gill
2. Horizons of Global Governance; Richard Falk
3. Towards Gendered Global Economic Governance: A Three-Dimensional Analysis of Social Forces; Isabella Bakker
4. Income Inequality and the Future of Global Governance; Janine Brodie
5. Beyond Inequality - Expulsions; Saskia Sassen
6. New Constitutionalism, Democracy and the Future of Global Governance; A. Claire Cutler
7. Trade Agreements and Progressive Governance; Scott Sinclair
8. Remaking Progressive Global Governance - Some Reflections with Reference to the Judiciary and the Rule of Law; Upendra Baxi
9. Radical Imaginaries and the Crisis of Global Governance; Stephen Gill