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The Fundamentals of Global Governance

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  • © 2009

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  1. Jim Whitman
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What kind of activity is global governance? What do all of the many sectoral forms of global governance – of the planetary environment, of global finance and global health – have in common? Moving beyond sector-specific studies, this book outlines the fundamentals of global governance in eight chapter-length propositions.

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Global governance: of, by and for whom?

    • Jim Whitman
    Pages 1-17

  3. Global governance in most senses and in most cases will link the local and the global; and the individual and the national/international realms

    • Jim Whitman
    Pages 18-33

  4. The sum of all global governances is not likely to be entirely coherent or to avoid competitive or antagonistic relationships

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    Pages 34-49

  5. Global governance needs to be relational, not merely technocratic

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    Pages 50-63

  6. Although global governance arrangements concern state behaviours to some degree and rely on state compliance and furtherance, the regimes are not only about states

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    Pages 64-78

  7. Global governance will rely on normative acceptance rather than lego-political enforcement

    • Jim Whitman
    Pages 79-94

  8. Global governance systems must deal with or be able to accommodate large-scale violations/disruptions

    • Jim Whitman
    Pages 95-111

  9. Global governance must be highly adaptive in respect of changing human circumstances

    • Jim Whitman
    Pages 112-126

  10. However extensive the coverage, global governance arrangements will remain aspirational to some degree

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    Pages 127-138

  11. The human rights regime as global governance

    • Jim Whitman
    Pages 139-159

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 160-187
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About the author

JIM WHITMAN is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK. He is Series Editor of the Palgrave Global Issues series

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