Global Governance from Regional Perspectives A Critical View

Global Governance from Regional Perspectives argues that the academic debate on global governance has neglected the combination of power with value constellations/culture. Both input and output legitimacy, for instance, or the exercise of control and influence are inextricably related to culture, worldviews, and values.

The book questions theoretically the Western hegemonic and hence 'invisible' definition of governance and related concepts, as well as the Western hegemony over global governance institutions. It looks from the ground up whether, and how, alternative practices, institutions/networks, and concepts/norms of global governance are emerging in relation to emerging powers and regional integration systems. Global Governance from Regional Perspectives starts with a critical reading of global governance from multi-disciplinary views and engages with two important and under-studied aspects, notably how global governance can be measured and what lies behind such measurements , and questions the democratic deficit of global governance. The book provides a series of regional and country perspectives on global governance which engage with a specific example of an institution, process, or issue that is used to highlight why and how the western hegemonic views and practices of global governance are (or not) contested. The book offers a mapping of global governance phenomena in different regions of the world and a critical readings of those. As such this volume is different from all international relations or political science collections on global governance and also opens up a new field of study that has been hitherto neglected in sociological or cultural studies.

Anna Triandafyllidou, Professor and Director of Cultural Pluralism, Global Governance Programme (GGP), the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), European University Institute

Professor Anna Triandafyllidou directs the Research Area on Cultural Pluralism, the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, at the European University Institute. She is Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of the Immigrant and Refugee Studies. Her publications include The Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies (Routledge, 2016), What is Europe? (with R. Gropas, Palgrave, 2015), and Circular Migration Between Europe and its Neighbourhood (OUP, 2013).

Part 1: Critical Approaches to Global Governance
1. Global Governance from Regional Perspectives: A Critical View, Anna Triandafyllidou
2. Can the Study of Global Governance be De-Centered?, Andrew Hurrell
3. Measuring (Global) Governance: The Potential, the Practical, and the Problematic Assessment of Governance Within and Beyond the State, Gaby Umbach
4. Democracy and Global Governance: The Internal and External Levers, Daniele Archibugi
Part 2: Regional Perspectives on Global Governance
5. A Perspective from the Middle East: Governance and the Problem of Knowledge, Nida Alahmad
6. An African Perspective on Global Governance, Thomas Kwasi Tieku and Linnea Guilot
7. A Russian Perspective on Global Governance, Elena Belokurova
8. Global Governance with Chinese Characteristics?, Neil Duggan, Wei Shen, and G. Gottwald
9. A 'Rashomon' Story: Latin American Views and Discourses of Global Governance and Multilateralism, Jose Antonio Sanahuja
10. The European Union and Global Governance, Thomas Christiansen
11. Global Governance in the United States, Roberto Dominguez
12. Pluralising Global Governance: Achievements and Challenges Ahead, Anna Triandafyllidou