Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:47:57 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: BHA: Global Governance


Richard/Carol
 
carol makes a good point, about there being no global governance. right now i am trying to build an argument (reading, reading) that we might not think there is such a phenomenon, but every day, thousands of international civil servants go to work in Geneva, New York and Washington and make "Global Public Policy" (See Reinecke, W 1998), submit "new theoretic tools" to deal with systemic problems including and especially global inequality (the Global Public Goods framework submitted by the UNDP (Kaul et al 1999) is actually what my thesis is a response to. my contention is that because of its moorings in neo-classical economics it cannot deal with structural/historic/political/social inequalities etc)... So, the question i am dealing with is this: Wether we believe it exists, or not, does that invalidate claims by these institutions WTO,UNDP etc that they are making global public policy and indeed governing without government?
 
Richard, I am aware of the institution/organisation differences/similarities - i once taught a class on international institutions that had nothing to do with organisations, or institutions that had desks and staff and offices etc. My PhD is in International Political Economy - this is an important issue in IR, in general. I make the distinction in the first chapter...
 
appreciate the exchange
 
ismail 


There May be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there never must be a time when we fail to protest." Elie Wiesel (1928- ) Writer, Nobel Laureate

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