The Diffusion Of Power In Global Governance: International Political Economy Meets Foucault (palgrave Studies In International Relations)

The study of global governance has often led separate lives within the respective camps of International Political Economy and Foucauldian Studies. Guzzini and Neumann combine these to look at an increasingly global politics with a growing number of agents, recognising the emergence of a global polity. The study of global governance has often led separate lives within the respective camps of International Political Economy and Foucauldian Studies. Despite vast differences in these approaches, Guzzini and Neumann's study recognises that ongoing changes in global governance go far beyond a proliferation of steering techniques and has a systems-changing potential. As politics becomes increasingly global in character and the number of agents attempting to govern grows, this in-depth range of case studies suggests the emergence of a global polity Front Matter....Pages i-ix The Ambivalent ‘Diffusion of Power’ in Global Governance....Pages 1-37 Private Military and Security Companies, Territoriality and the Transformation of Western Security Governance....Pages 38-70 Intellectual Property Governance: The Emergence of a New and Contested Global Regime....Pages 71-90 Nodal Governance: The Diffusion of Power in Global Forest Governance Networks....Pages 91-117 The Limits of Transnational Private Governance....Pages 118-140 Bankers Governing the Environment? Private Authority, Power Diffusion and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative....Pages 141-171 Disciplining the International Political Economy through Finance....Pages 172-202 The Diffusion of Power and the International ‘Discovery’ of ‘Diasporas’....Pages 203-228 Patterns of Global Governmentality and Sovereignty....Pages 229-255 Conclusion: An Emerging Global Polity....Pages 256-263 Back Matter....Pages 264-276