Governance Without Government: Order & Change In World Politi

Description:
A world government capable of controlling nation-states has never evolved. Nonetheless, considerable governance underlies the current order among states, facilitates absorption of the rapid changes at work in the world, and that direction to the challenges posed by interstate conflicts, environmental pollution, currency crises, and the many other problems to which an ever expanding global interdependence gives rise. In this study, nine leading international relations specialists examine the central features of this governance without government. They explore its ideological bases, behavioural patterns, and institutional arrangements as well as the pervasive changes presently at work within and among states. Within this context of change and order, the authors consider the role of the Concert of Europe and the pillars of the Westphalian system, the effectiveness of international institutions and regulatory mechanisms, the European Community and the micro-underpinnings of macro- governance practices.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Contributors; 1. Governance, order and change in world politics James N. Rosenau; 2. Governance with government: polyarchy in nineteenth-century European international politics K. J. Holsti; 3. The decaying pillars of the Westphalian temple: implications for international order and governance Mark W. Zacher; 4. The 'Triumph' of neoclassical economics in the developing world: policy convergence and bases of governance in the international economic order Thomas J. Biersteker; 5. Towards a post-hegemonic conceptualization of world order: reflections on the relevancy of Ibn Khaldun Robert W. Cox; 6. The effectiveness of international institutions: hard cases and critical variables Oran R. Young; 7. Explaining the regulation of transnational practices: a state-building approach Janice E. Thomson; 8. 'And Still It Moves' state interests and social forces in the European Community Linda Cornett and James A. Caporaso; 9. Governance and democratization Ernst-Otto Czempiel; 10. Micro sources of a changing global order James N. Risenau; Index.