Global Ordering: Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World (Globalization and Autonomy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774814330 ISBN 13: 9780774814331

Publisher: UBC Press, 2008

Synopsis

Despite myriad global forces influencing the lives of individuals, societies, and polities, people continue to value their personal and communal independence. They insist on shaping the conditions of their existence to the fullest extent possible. At the same time, many formal and informal institutions – from transnational legal and financial regimes to new governance arrangements for aboriginal communities in environmentally sensitive regions – are evolving, adapting to meet new challenges, or failing to adjust rapidly enough.

Global Ordering examines the key institutions and organizations that mediate the increasingly complex relationship between globalization and autonomy. Bringing together an outstanding group of scholars, this ground-breaking book contributes significantly to the work of re-imagining the circumstances under which integrative systemic forces can be brought into alignment with irreducible commitments to individual and collective autonomy. It is important work that maps the new frontier of globalization studies.

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About the Author

Louis W. Pauly is Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Governance at the University of Toronto. William D. Coleman is CIGI Chair in Globalization and Public Policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.

Contributors: Diana Brydon, Guy Gensey, Stephen Clarkson, Ian Cooper, A. Claire Cutler, Sarah Eaton, Ulf Hedetoft, Caren Irr, Natalia Loukacheva, Tony Porter, Petra Rethmann, Emily Sinclair, Michael Webb, and Gilbert R. Winham

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This innovative, interdisciplinary work explores keyinstitutional fault lines between the tectonic plates of globalizationand the insistent demands for individual and collectiveautonomy.
Despite myriad global forces influencing the lives of individuals,societies, and polities, people continue to value their personal andcommunal independence. They insist on shaping the conditions of theirexistence to the fullest extent possible. At the same time, many formaland informal institutions – from transnational legal andfinancial regimes to new governance arrangements for aboriginalcommunities in environmentally sensitive regions – are evolving,adapting to meet new challenges, or failing to adjust rapidlyenough.
Global Ordering examines the key institutions andorganizations that mediate the ever-more complex relationship betweenglobalization and autonomy. Bringing together an outstanding group ofscholars, this ground-breaking book contributes significantly to thework of re-imagining the circumstances under which integrative systemicforces can be brought into alignment with irreducible commitments toindividual and collective autonomy. It is important work that maps thenew frontier of globalization studies.

Louis W. Pauly is Canada Research Chair inGlobalization and Governance at the University of Toronto.William D. Coleman is Canada Research Chair in GlobalGovernance and Public Policy at McMaster University.

Contributors: Diana Brydon, Guy Gensey, StephenClarkson, Ian Cooper, A. Claire Cutler, Sarah Eaton, Ulf Hedetoft,Caren Irr, Natalia Loukacheva, Tony Porter, Petra Rethmann, EmilySinclair, Michael Webb, Gilbert R. Winham

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774814330
• ISBN 13: 9780774814331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Pauly Louis W., Coleman William D.