Research Handbook on Global Governance

Edited by Aoife O'Donoghue, Professor of Law, Queen's University Belfast, School of Law, Ruth Houghton, Senior Lecturer, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, UK and Cher Weixia Chen, Associate Professor, School of Integrative Studies, George Mason University, USA

• ContentsPreface xviiPART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Global Governance 2Cher Weixia Chen and Ruth Houghton2 Global Governance: Why Bother? 13Aoife O’DonoghuePART II THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 3 Democracy and Global Governance 29Kavi Joseph Abraham and Ruth Houghton4 Global Governance in the Age of Neoliberalism: A Marxist Critique 56Marina Veličković5 Rawls’s Justice Challenge in Global Governance 79Ming-Sung Kuo6 Principles in Global Governance: A Global Constitutional Approach to Care, Climate Justice, and the Welfare State 98S. Lucia Kula and Kym Oliver7 Queer Theories in/and Global Governance 125Caitlin Biddolph and Penny Griffin8 Consociationalism, Equality and Intersectionality: Lessons from Northern Ireland and Belgium 152Clare RicePART III LAW, GOVERNANCE, AND ACCOUNTABILITY 9 Comparative Law and Global Governance 171Cristina Fasone and Irene Spigno10 Transformative Constitutionalism in a Neoliberal World: Revisiting the Global Significance of the South African Experience of Economic and Social Rights Adjudication 206Anashri Pillay11 Multinational Corporations and Global Governance 232Jane Rooney12 Interactions between Global, Regional and National Governance: The Case of the Financial Action Task Force 260Edefe Ojomo13 Influence of Religion on Politics and Legal Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa 280Augustine Edobor Arimoro and Abba Amsami ElgujjaPART IV GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS 14 The Global Governance of Disability Rights: Complexities, Participatory Trends and Intersections 299Delia Ferri, Andrea Broderick and Ann Leahy15 Indigenous Rights and Global Governance 330Cher Weixia Chen16 Global Governance and Palestine: Negating the Palestinian Right to Self-Determination 355Bana Abu Zuluf and Alice Panepinto17 Mapping Artificial Intelligence and Human Intersections: Why We Need New Perspectives on Harm and Governance in Human Rights 384Tetyana (Tanya) Krupiy and Jaqueline McLeod RogersPART V GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE18 Remedying Environmental Law’s Flaws in a Time of Planetary Change: Is Earth System Law the Answer? 411Olivia Woolley19 The Global Governance of Environmental Injustice: Spectral and Climate History of Indigenous Genocide in Colombia 431Paulo Ilich Bacca20 Global Economic Governance 451Karina Patrício Ferreira Lima and Billy Melo AraújoPART VI GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: PEACE AND CONFLICT 21 Global Governance and the Use of Force 478Francisco Lobo and Grant B. Falken22 The Ambiguity of Peace: Global Governance as an Unequal Ordering of War 493Hendrik Simon and Siddharth Mallavarapu23 An Elephant Playing Second Fiddle? The Role of the UN in Twenty-First-Century Peace Mediation 511Jenna SapianoPART VII GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: HISTORY AND ALTERNATIVE FUTURES 24 Reordering the Global: A History of Challenges to Governance 537Parvathi Menon and Aoife O’Donoghue25 Narratives of Euro-American Imperialism: Past, Present, and Future 551E. Leigh McKagen26 Imagining Global Governments 570Joanne Stagg and Tamsin Phillipa PaigePART VIII CONCLUSION 27 Conclusion to the Research Handbook on Global Governance 593Cher Weixia Chen, Ruth Houghton and Aoife O’DonoghueIndex 606

‘In an age of war, climate catastrophe, pandemics, and political upheaval, this Research Handbook confronts the central dilemma of our time: humanity faces global, borderless crises, yet our responses increasingly retreat into fragmented, local silos. A vital, interdisciplinary discourse for reimagining governance in an interconnected world.’