Criticizing Global Governance

M. Lederer

ISBN 10: 1403969485 / ISBN 13: 9781403969484

Published by SPRINGER NATURE Nov 2005, 2005

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The essays in this collection seek to reflect on global governance and to provide a better critical understanding of the various practices that fall under its rubric. The first part challenges the concept of global governance, the second part focuses on organizational and institutional aspects, and the last part examines the rule systems implemented by global governance practices. The vocabulary of (global) governance has become a serious contender to imagine world order in the post cold war world. Using different strategies of critique, the contributors argue that global governance denotes a political vocabulary where acts of definition themselves are political moves. 280 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Criticizing Global Governance
• Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE Nov 2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403969485
• ISBN 13: 9781403969484
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 219W x 154H x 20D millimeters 219 millimeters width by 154 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 435 grams

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Synopsis

The essays in this collection seek to reflect on global governance and to provide a better critical understanding of the various practices that fall under its rubric. The first part challenges the concept of global governance, the second part focuses on organizational and institutional aspects, and the last part examines the rule systems implemented by global governance practices. The vocabulary of (global) governance has become a serious contender to imagine world order in the post cold war world. Using different strategies of critique, the contributors argue that global governance denotes a political vocabulary where acts of definition themselves are political moves.

About the Author

BASAK CALI Lecturer in Human Rights at the University College London, UK AYCA ERGUN Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey MATTHIAS FINGER Dean of the School of Continuing Education at the Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland JÖRG FRIEDRICHS Research Associate at International University Bremen, Germany FLEUR JOHNS Lecturer of International Law, International Human Rights Law and Professional Ethics at the University of Sydney Faculty of Law, Australia REBECCA JOHNSON Academic Director for South Carolina's Washington Fellows Programme, USA ANNA LEANDER Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark JULIE L. OWEN Practicing in the areas of Civil Litigation and Constitutional Law at Hunter Voith Litigation Counsel in Vancouver, Canada HEIKKI PATOMÄKI Professor of International Relations at the University of Helsinki, Finland ANDREAS L. PAULUS Wissenschaftlicher Assistant Professor at the Institute for Public International Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany KONRAD SPÄTH Research Student in the Department of International Relations at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany ROBERT WAI Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada