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"Der Beitrag rekonstruiert den Übergang von der Theorie politischer Steuerung zu der - von begrifflichen Unschärfen belasteten - heutigen Governancetheorie und skizziert einen analytischen Rahmen, der zwischen den Akteurkonstellationen (Formen) und den Instrumenten von Governance differenziert. Die auf der Ebene des Nationalstaats der OECD-Welt, der Europäischen Union und des globalen Systems jeweils vorherrschenden Governanceformen und -instrumente unterscheiden sich auf charakteristische Weise. Die Analyse des so konstituierten Mehrebenensystems und die darin vom Nationalstaat gespielte Rolle gehören zu den theoretischen Herausforderungen, mit denen die Governancetheorie sich heute befasst." (Autorenreferat)

The jurisprudential analysis of international criminal law in general and of the International Criminal Court in particular still focuses on the international prosecution of international atrocities. This may well be too hasty a transcription of national paradigms to the international level, since the other objectives, rationales and effects of the multi level system international criminal law might too easily be forgotten. Refocusing on them, this article draws on global governance-theory to systematize and theorize them. As will be shown: International Criminal Law is global governance. Together with its institutions it evaluates, corrects and sanctions governance deficits and failures of national criminal justice systems. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 The Forerunners of Global Governance: A Brief History -- In the beginning -- Globalization -- Concluding remarks -- 2 The Theoretical Debate -- Governance -- Governance goes global -- Theory with Chinese characteristics? -- Concluding remarks -- 3 The World the United States Made -- Before hegemony -- Embedding hegemony -- Concluding remarks -- 4 Contested Governance and the China Challenge -- Taking history seriously -- China goes (sort of) global -- China and global governance -- Concluding remarks -- 5 The Rise of the Rest? -- Early risers -- Late developers -- The BRICS -- A new institutional order? -- Concluding remarks -- 6 Regionalism in a Global Era -- Regions: Good in theory? -- The EU: First and foremost? -- The Asian alternative -- Concluding remarks -- 7 Governing the Global Economy -- Conceptualizing the evolving economic order -- Concluding remarks -- 8 Governing the Global Environment -- The inconvenient truth -- The politics of climate change -- Concluding remarks -- 9 Governing Global Security -- Is peace possible? -- Concluding remarks -- 10 The Future of Global Governance -- The perils and necessity of extrapolation -- The cosmopolitan alternative -- Is world government the (only) answer? -- Rethinking global governance -- Bibliography -- Index.

AbstractWe argue that a focus on practices can enrich the study of global governance by drawing attention to a wealth of informal processes and their politics. After explaining the usefulness of a practice approach, we examine four pervasive practices in contemporary world politics: hosting a global conference, accrediting NGOs, mandating a group of experts, and forming multistakeholder partnerships. For each of these established 'ways of doing things,' we provide a definition, decline its variations, and analyze its politics. Through our case studies, we show that global governance practices often generate competing social effects, by which inclusionary trends combine with more exclusionary tendencies. This common dialectic of inclusion and exclusion provides an analytical key to better understand the politics of global public policy making, including its power dynamics.

AbstractAn increasingly important challenge in global governance, which in some issue areas has been labelled 'traceability', has been to track the cross‐border travels of objects that are associated with positive or negative effects. However, the common properties and identifiable patterns of variation of traceability across issue areas or industries have been insufficiently explored. We identify key properties of traceability systems, including the variation and interactions between the physical properties of the traced object, the positive or negative effects with which it is associated, the monitoring technology, and the institutionalized power relations that activate and constrain traceability systems. We examine and compare traceability systems for food safety, conflict minerals, pharmaceuticals, carbon emissions, money laundering and financial transactions. Understanding traceability in this way is important not only for these cases, but also for understanding interactions between objects, infrastructures, as well as monitoring and political mechanisms in global governance more generally.

"This discussion paper is about the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - one of the multilateral agreements that came out of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. UNCCD is based on a conceptualization of international relations that transcends to a large extent the traditional notions of inter-governmental treaties. Such policy concepts are known under the framework of Global Governance as they allocate political action rather to the horizontal level - implying multi-actor-networks and the civil society - than to vertical or top-down processes. The paper first shows that - inspired by the Brundtland Report and the emerging process of globalization - Rio was the peak season for Global Governance concepts that found their way into treaties and triggered structural reform, thus shaping a different reality of multilateral cooperation. In a second step, the paper shows that the Convention to Combat Desertification is the most Global Governance oriented of all of UNCED's outcomes. Its legally binding text contains a number of pertinent elements, ranging from a stringent cross-over of environment and development issues, via the ąbottom-up approach', to a mix of policy tools such as mainstreamed national action programmes and partnership agreements." (author's abstract)

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Glossary of Abbreviations -- Part I Global Governance -- 1 Globalization and Governance: an Overview -- 2 Taming Capital, Holding Peace -- 3 Democratizing Governance -- Part II Global Financial Flows -- 4 The Political Economy of Globalization: the Old and the New -- 5 Financial Globalization: the State, Capital and Policy-making -- 6 The Asian Financial Crisis and IMF Intervention -- 7 The Role of Portfolio Investors in the Asian Financial Crisis -- 8 The Case for Regional and Global Financial Regulation -- 9 Renewing the Governance of the Global Economy -- Part III Global Peace and Security -- 10 Conflict Prevention: Towards a Multidimensional Approach -- 11 The UN and Disarmament: a Global and Regional Action Plan -- 12 The Politics of Biological and Chemical Disarmament -- 13 Reforming Multilateral Peace Operations: a Survey -- 14 Peace Operations: the Road Ahead -- Part IV Reimagining the Future -- 15 Major Structural Reform -- 16 The Politics of Reform -- Select Bibliography -- Index.