Power in global governance

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Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Notes on the contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 15
1 Power in global governance......Page 17
Conceptualizing power......Page 24
How power is expressed: interaction or constitution......Page 25
The specificity of social relations of power: direct or diffuse......Page 27
Compulsory power: direct control over another......Page 29
Institutional power: actors' control over socially distant others......Page 31
Structural power: direct and mutual constitution of the capacities of actors......Page 34
Productive power: production of subjects through diffuse social relations......Page 36
From power to resistance......Page 38
Organization of the volume......Page 40
2 Power, institutions, and the production of inequality......Page 49
Liberal institutionalism......Page 50
Liberal constructivism......Page 58
Liberalism, hegemony, and international institutions......Page 61
Bringing power back in......Page 64
Which system?......Page 65
Normative implications......Page 67
3 Policing and global governance......Page 75
Policing and global governance through the prism of neoliberalism......Page 77
Global policing and the different forms of power......Page 82
Global governance on the ground: policing in practice......Page 85
Policing privatization......Page 86
Policing governance......Page 90
Conclusion......Page 94
4 Power, fairness, and the global economy......Page 96
Defining fairness......Page 100
Fairness, uncertainty, and institutional design......Page 105
Power, fairness, and the international trade regime......Page 110
Economic fairness and hegemonic power......Page 113
5 Power politics and the institutionalization of international relations......Page 118
Rationalist perspectives on supranational governance......Page 123
The information argument......Page 124
The incomplete contracting argument......Page 126
The multiple-equilibria argument......Page 128
The importance (to the enactors) of insulating the new equilibrium......Page 129
Extending the logic......Page 131
Power politics and institutional variation......Page 133
Institutional engineering and the cooptation of the French Socialists: the system worked......Page 134
A first cut......Page 135
A closer look......Page 137
A power-politics perspective......Page 139
From anarchy to organization: the hidden face of power......Page 141
6 Power, governance, and the WTO: a comparative institutional approach......Page 146
Compulsory power: asymmetric material resources and the setting of WTO rules......Page 149
Compulsory power: asymmetric deployment of ideational resources......Page 151
Institutional power: deploying WTO rules through litigation and negotiation in its shadow......Page 152
Asymmetric avoidance of institutional constraints: use of "legal" protection and extra-legal coercion......Page 154
Background......Page 156
Alternative institutional choices......Page 157
Normative choices: the need for comparative institutional analysis......Page 171
Conclusion......Page 174
7 The power of liberal international organizations......Page 177
Liberal international organizations......Page 179
The authority of IOs......Page 185
Compulsory power: authority as a normative resource to direct behavior......Page 191
Institutional power: guiding behavior at a distance......Page 193
Productive power: constitution......Page 195
Conclusion......Page 197
8 The power of interpretive communities......Page 201
The role of interpretive communities......Page 203
The concept of an interpretive community......Page 205
Legal discourse as an intersubjective enterprise......Page 207
The Security Council as a deliberative setting......Page 209
The Kosovo case......Page 213
Conclusion......Page 217
9 Class powers and the politics of global governance......Page 221
Stiglitz and globalization's discontents......Page 222
Structural power......Page 224
Power and class relations......Page 226
Class power as global power......Page 229
Powers and resistances......Page 233
Articulating a hegemonic project: "entrepreneurship in the public interest"......Page 238
Conclusion......Page 243
10 Global civil society and global governmentality: or, the search for politics and the state amidst the capillaries of social power......Page 245
Governmentality and the public–private divide......Page 249
The power of markets......Page 256
The power of politics......Page 260
The power of power......Page 263
11 Securing the civilian: sex and gender in the laws of war......Page 265
Gender and the laws of war......Page 268
Grotius and the laws of war......Page 273
1949 Geneva Convention......Page 278
Power and the production of difference......Page 286
12 Colonial and postcolonial global governance......Page 289
Ordering the global......Page 290
Colonial governance......Page 291
The subjects and objects of colonial governance......Page 296
Contesting colonial governance......Page 299
Postcolonial ambivalence......Page 302
Resistance......Page 305
Knowledge in power: the epistemic construction of global governance......Page 310
"The order of (global) things"......Page 311
The epistemic requirements of global governance......Page 316
Authority......Page 318
Epistemic validity......Page 319
Good practices......Page 321
Practical reason......Page 323
Epistemes and global governance: legalization and trade......Page 324
Legalization......Page 325
International trade......Page 327
Conclusion......Page 333
References......Page 335
Index......Page 370