Who is Afraid of the State?: Canada in a World of Multiple Centres of Power

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 Preface
 Acknowledgments
 Contributors
 Acronyms
 1 Introduction: Conceptualizing Multiple Centres of Power
 Part One: Multiple Centres of Power
 2 Menage à trois: The State between Civil Society and the International System
 3 Policy Making in a Multicentric World: The Impact of Globalization, Privatization, and Decentralization on Democratic Governance
 Part Two: The State and Multiple Centres of Power
 4 Governance of Politics without a Centre
 5 The Multi-centred State: Canadian Government under Globalizing Pressures. Part Three: The International System and Multiple Centres of Power6 The Emergence of International Parliamentary Institutions: New Networks of Influence in World Society
 7 International Convention Secretariats and Canada's Role in Future Environmental Governance
 8 Rendering unto Caesar: How Legal Pluralism and Regime Theory Help in Understanding Multiple Centres of Power
 9 Conclusion: Implications for Governance and Policy
 References.