Power in Global Governance (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 98) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521549523 ISBN 13: 9780521549523

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

These contributions by international scholars reconsider the conceptualization of power in world politics. Arguing that the importance of power in international relations is underestimated, the book presents and employs a taxonomy of power that embraces agency, institutions, structure and discourse. It demonstrates how these different forms connect and intersect and how such an expanded concept can enrich our understanding of global governance.

About this title

Book Description:

This contributory volume gathers together international scholars to reconsider the conceptualization of power in world politics. Arguing that the importance of power in international relations is underestimated, the book presents and employs a taxonomy of power that embraces agency, institutions, structure and discourse. It demonstrates how these different forms connect and intersect in a range of different issue areas and shows how such an expanded concept can enliven and enrich our understanding of global governance. This ambitious and wide-ranging volume with have a broad appeal.

About the Author:

Michael Barnett is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Dialogues in Arab Politics: Negotiations in Regional Order (1998), Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda (2002), and, with Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics. He is also co-editor, with Emanuel Adler of Security Communities (1998).

Raymond Duvall is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at the University of Minnesota. His recent publications include Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities and the Production of Danger (1999), co-edited with Jutta Weldes, Mark Laffey and Hugh Gusterson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521549523
• ISBN 13: 9780521549523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390
• Editor: Barnett Michael, Duvall Raymond