A New World Order

✍ Scribed by Anne-Marie Slaughter

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 362
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Global governance is here--but not where most people think. This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter asks us to completely rethink how we view the political world. It's not a collection of nation states that communicate through presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers, and the United Nations. Nor is it a clique of NGOs. It is governance through a complex global web of "government networks."Slaughter provides the most compelling and authoritative description to date of a world in which government officials--police investigators, financial regulators, even judges and legislators--exchange information and coordinate activity across national borders to tackle crime, terrorism, and the routine daily grind of international interactions. National and international judges and regulators can also work closely together to enforce international agreements more effectively than ever before. These networks, which can range from a group of constitutional judges exchanging opinions across borders to more established organizations such as the G8 or the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, make things happen--and they frequently make good things happen. But they are underappreciated and, worse, underused to address the challenges facing the world today.The modern political world, then, consists of states whose component parts are fast becoming as important as their central leadership. Slaughter not only describes these networks but also sets forth a blueprint for how they can better the world. Despite questions of democratic accountability, this new world order is not one in which some "world government" enforces global dictates. The governments we already have at home are our best hope for tackling the problems we face abroad, in a networked world order.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 16
Introduction......Page 22
1. The Globalization Paradox: Needing More Government and Fearing It......Page 29
2. The Disaggregated State......Page 33
3. A New World Order......Page 36
4. A Just New World Order......Page 48
5. Conclusion: Pushing the Paradigm......Page 52
CHAPTER 1 Regulators: The New Diplomats......Page 57
1. A New Phenomenon?......Page 62
2. Where Are They?......Page 66
3. What Do They Do?......Page 72
4. Conclusion......Page 82
CHAPTER 2 Judges: Constructing a Global Legal System......Page 86
1. Constitutional Cross-Fertilization......Page 90
2. Toward a Global Community of Human Rights Law......Page 100
3. The Role of National Courts in the Construction of the European Community Legal System......Page 103
4. Judicial Cooperation and Conflict in Transnational Litigation......Page 106
5. Meeting Face to Face......Page 117
6. Conclusion......Page 121
CHAPTER 3 Legislators: Lagging Behind......Page 125
1. Legislators Finding Their Voice on the World Stage......Page 128
2. Legislative Networks as Catalysts and Correctives for Regional Integration......Page 140
3. Helping Legislators “Do Their Work Better”......Page 146
4. Conclusion......Page 148
CHAPTER 4 A Disaggregated World Order......Page 152
1. The Horizontal Dimension: Networks of Networks......Page 156
2. The Vertical Dimension......Page 165
3. Government Networks and Traditional International Organizations: Interconnected Worlds......Page 173
4. Conclusion......Page 183
CHAPTER 5 An Effective World Order......Page 187
1. What Government Networks Do Now......Page 192
2. What Government Networks Could Do......Page 216
3. Conclusion......Page 234
CHAPTER 6 A Just World Order......Page 237
1. Problems with Government Networks......Page 238
2. A Menu of Potential Solutions......Page 251
3. Global Norms Regulating Government Networks......Page 265
4. Conclusion......Page 278
Conclusion......Page 282
1. Government Networks and Global Public Policy......Page 283
2. National Support for Government Networks......Page 285
3. Disaggregated Sovereignty......Page 287
Notes......Page 294
Bibliography......Page 340
B......Page 354
C......Page 355
G......Page 356
I......Page 357
M......Page 358
N......Page 359
R......Page 360
T......Page 361
Z......Page 362