Approaches to Global Governance Theory

Martin Hewson is an Associate at the York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS), York University, Toronto. Timothy J. Sinclair teaches International Political Economy at the University of Warwick in England and is External Associate at YCISS.

• Acknowledgments Preface Part OneThe Global Governance Concept 1. The Emergence of Global Governance TheoryMartin Hewson and Timothy J. Sinclair 2. Politics in a Floating World: Toward a Critique of Global GovernanceRobert Latham 3. Global Governance and Social Closure or Who Is to Be Governed in the Era of Global Governance?Ronen Palan Part TwoTechnology, Discourse, and Global Governance 4. Environmental Remote Sensing, Global Governance, and the Territorial StateKaren T. Litfin 5. Did Global Governance Create Informational Globalism?Martin Hewson 6. Governance and the Nation-State in a Knowledge-Based Political EconomyEdward A. Comor Part ThreeKnowledge, Marketization, and Global Governance 7. The Late-Modern Knowledge Structure and World PoliticsTony Porter 8. Synchronic Global Governance and the International Political Economy of the CommonplaceTimothy J. Sinclair 9. Borrowing Authority; Eclipsing GovernmentM. Mark Amen Part FourPolitical Identity, Civil Society, and Global Governance 10. History's Revenge and Future Shock: The Remapping of Global PoliticsYale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach 11. Our Global Neighborhood: Pushing Problem-Solving Theory to Its Limits and the Limits of Problem-Solving TheoryMichael G. Schechter 12. From Local Knowledge and Practice to Global Environmental GovernanceRonnie D. Lipschutz Part FiveConclusion 13. Toward an Ontology for Global GovernanceJames N. Rosenau List of Contributors Index

"What I like most is the diversity of well-argued positions about 'global governance' that the book includes. Both as a concept and as a phenomena, 'global governance' is highly contested, and this book reflects that contestation." — Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College"…offers genuine insight into the subject of global governance." — Canadian Journal of Political Science