Regulating Globalization : Critical Approaches to Global Governance Book
Contents: List of contributors. List of acronyms. 1. Introduction/Ali Kazancigil and Pierre de Senarclens. 2. The United Nations as a social and economic regulator/Pierre de Senarclens. 3. The significance of statehood in global governance/Ali Kazancigil. 4. Financial globalization, "global governance" and the erosion of democracy/Virgile Perret. 5. Trends in global economic governance and the emerging accountability gap/Ngaire Woods. 6. Rule-making in global trade: the developmental challenge/Miguel F. Lengyel. 7. Regionalism and global governance: an appraisal/Louise Fawcett. 8. Regionalization and globalization: two concomitant dynamics in need of coherent institutions/Yves Berthelot. 9. Developmental and environmental policies: past trends, present issues, future prospects/Yohan Ariffin. 10. Can global governance make globalization more legitimate?/Jean-Marc Coicaud. 11. Conclusion/Pierre de Senarclens and Ali Kazancigil. Index.
"While globalization is thriving, its consequences remain contradictory and controversial. Despite being an effective process in generating economic growth, globalization also leads to excessive concentrations of wealth and increased inequalities within and between countries. The resulting imbalances can be explained to a large extent by regulatory deficiencies in the economic, financial, commercial and environmental sectors stemming from unaccountable, undemocratic, inequitable and ineffective global governance.
The authors offer critical historic and forward-looking analyses on current global governance and formulate proposals towards more accountable, transparent and participatory global governance as well as its institutional architecture for a regulation of globalization that combines economic efficiency and social equity.
Emphasis is put on multi-level governance, underlining the relevance of regional governance as a link between the local and global. A central argument in the volume is that the legitimacy of global governance is weak, while the way to make it more legitimate is to enhance the participation of state and non-state agents, give a strong role to statehood and democratic politics, and place priority on the public interest over private/corporate interests." (jacket)