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Oxford A Theory of Global Governance Authority Legitimacy and Contestation 2018 Edition by Michael Zürn
This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and power inequalities and therefore inherently creates contestation, resistance, and distributional struggles. Within an ambitious and systematic new conceptual framework, the theory makes four key contributions.Firstly, it reconstructs global governance as a political system which builds on normative principles and reflexive authorities. Second, it identifies the central legitimation problems of the global governance system with a constitutionalist setting in mind. Third, it explains the rise of state andsocietal contestation by identifying key endogenous dynamics and probing the causal mechanisms that produced them. Finally, it identifies the conditions under which struggles in the global governance system lead to decline or deepening.Rich with propositions, insights, and evidence, the book promises to be the most important and comprehensive theoretical argument about world politics of the 21st century. Table of Contents :- Introduction: Global Governance in Hard TimesIntroductionPart I: The Global Governance System1: Normative Principles2: Reflexive Authorities3: Legitimation Problems4: The Theoretical Model: Causal Mechanisms and HypothesesPart II: The Contestation of Global Governance5: The Rise of the Global Governance System: A Historical-Institutionalist Account6: The Politicization of Authority beyond the Nation State7: Counter-Institutionalization in the Global Governance System8: The Deepening of Global GovernancePart III: Are There Realistic Models of Global Governance with Cosmopolitan Intent? An Empirical Assessment 10: Conclusion: A New Paradigm in IR?