Global Governance in a World of Change

Michael N. Barnett, Jon C. W. Pevehouse, Kal Raustiala

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781108843232
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108910590
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Global governance has come under increasing pressure since the end of the Cold War. In some issue areas, these pressures have led to significant changes in the architecture of governance institutions. In others, institutions have resisted pressures for change. This volume explores what accounts for this divergence in architecture by identifying three modes of governance: hierarchies, networks, and markets. The authors apply these ideal types to different issue areas in order to assess how global governance has changed and why. In most issue areas, hierarchical modes of governance, established after World War II, have given way to alternative forms of organization focused on market or network-based architectures. Each chapter explores whether these changes are likely to lead to more or less effective global governance across a wide range of issue areas. This provides a novel and coherent theoretical framework for analysing change in global governance. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Modes of Global Governance
• 1 Governance Shifts in Security: Military and Security Services and Small Arms Compared
• 2 The Bretton Woods Moment: Hierarchies, Networks, and Markets in the Long Twentieth Century
• 3 Climate Change Governance: Past, Present, and (Hopefully) Future
• 4 A Shadow of Its Former Self: Hierarchy and Global Trade
• 5 The Humanitarian Club: Hierarchy, Networks, and Exclusion
• 6 The Supply of Informal International Governance: Hierarchy plus Networks in Global Governance
• 7 Global Governance, Expert Networks, and ''Fragile States''
• 8 Global Health: A Centralized Network Searching (in Vain) for Hierarchy
• 9 Governing Armed Conflicts: The ICRC between Hierarchy and Networks
• 10 Clean Energy and the Hybridization of Global Governance
• 11 Legitimacy and Modes of Global Governance
• Conclusion: Global Governance and Institutional Diversity
• Index