Public Governance in the Age of Globalization

Karl-Heinz Ladeur is Professor of Public Law at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and an External Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

• Contents: Globalization and public governance - a contradiction?, Karl-Heinz Ladeur. Towards a General Theory of Globalization: Frontiers: national and transnational order, Lawrence M. Friedman; De-nationalized State agendas and privatized norm-making, Saskia Sassen. The Transformation of the Relationship between Public and Private in a Globalizing Society: Global private regimes: neo-spontaneous law and dual constitution of autonomous sectors?, Gunther Teubner; Globalization and the conversion of democracy to polycentric networks: can democracy survive the end of the Nation State?, Karl-Heinz Ladeur. The Change of Law and the State under the Pressure of Globalization: Global government networks, global information agencies and disaggregated democracy, Anne-Marie Slaughter; Sovereignty and solidarity: EU and US, Joshua Cohen and Charles F. Sabel; Legal orders between autonomy and intertwinement, Mark Van Hoecke. The New Forms of War in a Global Society: On globalization: the military dimension, Martin van Creveld. The Economy and Global Public Governance: The competitive State and the industrial organization of nations, Jean-Jacques Rosa; The network economy as a challenge to create new public law (beyond the State), Thomas Vesting; International trade as a vector in domestic regulatory reform: discrimination, cost-benefit analysis and negotiations, Joel P. Trachtman; Public governance and the co-operative law of transnational markets: the case of financial regulation, Pedro Gustavo Teixeira; Index.

'Karl-Heinz Ladeur's volume offers a timely and original contribution to the debate on globalization and public governance. Responsibility - Ladeur says - will in the long run be concentrated neither at the level of domestic governments nor at the supranational level...rather, it will rather rest with private-public networks of decision-makers and groups that proliferate and overlap at all levels. The volume explores this hypothesis from a wide array of perspectives, bringing together cutting-edge research by leading academics in each field. The book will be a benchmark for the discussion to come.' Professor Oliver Gerstenberg, Leeds University, UK 'This is an extraordinary book. It offers a fascinating composition of contributions to the multi-faceted globalization debate from a wide range of disciplines (constitutionalism, comparative law and legal theory; international relations and international law and international trade law; social philosophy, sociology and political science.) Karl-Heinz Ladeur's collection...documents why globalization processes need to be explored from so many perspectives and at so many levels - and how such multi-disciplinary can generate synergetic effects.' Professor Christian Joerges, European University Institute, Florence, Italy '...refreshing in its attempt to apply empirical insights to emerging normative questions about global governance...The book's interdisciplinary approach to public governance is particularly valuable since certain disciplines are better suited to investigating certain institutions...the essays successfully contribute to the development of a unified academic idiom.' Global and European Law Book Review