This edited volume examines power in its different dimensions in global governance. Scholars tend to underestimate the importance of power in international relations because of a failure to see its multiple forms. To expand the conceptual aperture, this book presents and employs a taxonomy that alerts scholars to the different kinds of power that are present in world politics. A team of international scholars demonstrate how these different forms connect and intersect in global governance in a range of different issue areas. Bringing together a variety of theoretical perspectives, this volume invites scholars to reconsider their conceptualization of power in world politics and how such a move can enliven and enrich their understanding of global governance.
1. Power and global governance Michael N. Barnett and Raymond Duvall; 2. Power, institutions, and the production of inequality Andrew Hurrell; 3. Policing and global governance Mark Laffey and Jutta Weldes; 4. Power, fairness and the global economy Ethan Kapstein; 5. Power politics and the institutionalization of international relations Lloyd Gruber; 6. Power, nested governance, and the WTO: a comparative institutional approach Greg Shaffer; 7. The power of liberal international organizations Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore; 8. The power of interpretive communities Ian Johnstone; 9. Class powers and the politics of global governance Mark Rupert; 10. Global civil society and global governmentality: or, the search for the political and the state amidst capillaries of power Ronnie Lipschutz; 11. Governing the innocent? The 'civilian' in international law Helen Kinsella; 12. Colonial and postcolonial global governance Himadeep Muppidi; 13. Knowledge in power: the epistemic construction of global governance Emanuel Adler and Steven Bernstein.
