Research Handbook on Global Governance: (Research Handbooks on Globalisation and the Law series)

This carefully curated Research Handbook provides a wide-ranging exploration of global governance, including its successes and failures. It challenges the promise that global institutions and frameworks offer solutions to major world challenges such as climate change, pandemics, war, democracy, human rights and inequalities. Adopting diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, the Research Handbook draws on a broad range of perspectives to interrogate the concepts of ‘global’ and ‘governance’, considering the ideologies reflected by these terms. Leading experts discuss the roles played by the state as well as local, regional and international organisations, addressing their accountability, transparency and governance legitimacy. Interdisciplinary in scope, the Research Handbook combines law with history, politics, sociology and international relations to challenge the conventional paradigms of global governance scholarship. It further illustrates the reshaping of transnational interactions and emphasises the need for local, indigenous and comparative viewpoints that are traditionally overlooked. The ,i>Research Handbook on Global Governance is a vital resource for scholars and students of public international law, international economic and environmental law, the laws of war and peace, and international relations and politics. It will also benefit academics in political geography and sub-altern studies, as well as policymakers and practitioners in law, regulation and governance.

About the Author :
Edited by Aoife O'Donoghue, Professor of Law, Queen's University Belfast, School of Law, Ruth Houghton, Senior Lecturer, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, UK and Cher Weixia Chen, Associate Professor, School of Integrative Studies, George Mason University, USA

Review :
‘In an age of war, climate catastrophe, pandemics, and political upheaval, this Research Handbook confronts the central dilemma of our time: humanity faces global, borderless crises, yet our responses increasingly retreat into fragmented, local silos. A vital, interdisciplinary discourse for reimagining governance in an interconnected world.’ ‘The literature on global governance, while extensive, lacks one key element: it is rarely truly global. Whether it is focused on how great powers govern or how international institutions regulate, global governance has long been a topic on which Westerners speak to each other about the rest of the world. This Research Handbook provides a powerful alternative. It turns our attention to the real globe, including voices and insights from around the world and creating geographic, methodological, and conceptual plurality. This is the book on global governance we need today, one that lets us hear from voices that have too often been the objects rather than the agents of that governance.’