Reimagining the Governance of Globalization

Abstract

The post 9/11 meaning of the term globalization is argued to need to be cast far more broadly to consider the relevance of the reconfiguration of conflict on the global level, & to suggest how the quest for a new framework of regulatory authority has changed from the 1990s. The author asserts the central contention that, although globalization retains its relevance as a descriptive level, it is the economist at interpretation since the events of 2001 that needs to be altered. A brief review of the evolution of world politics after the Cold War sets the stage for the extended view of globalization as an incorporation of the new geopolitics of post-statist political conflict. The contested & fluid contours & ideological orientation of globalization & governance are placed in five overlapping approaches to governance globalizations of corporate, civic, imperial, apocalyptic, & regional are identified as the structural alternatives for the future of world order. Although maintaining the descriptive terminology of globalization remains useful, the author concludes that its provenance should be enlarged to take account of globalizing tendencies other than those associated with the world economy & the old anti-globalization movement in the environment of the eclipsing of the whole project of global governance in recent years. References. J. Harwell