Deliberation and Global Governance: Liberal, Cosmopolitan, and Critical Perspectives

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Smith ◽  
James Brassett
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Common Concern ◽  
Minimalist Conception ◽  
Critical Perspectives

The paper develops a critical analysis of deliberative approaches to global governance. After first defining global governance and with a minimalist conception of deliberation in mind, the paper outlines three paradigmatic approaches: liberal, cosmopolitan, and critical. The possibilities and problems of each approach are examined and a common concern with the scope for “deliberative reflection” in global governance is addressed. It is argued that each approach, to varying degrees, foregrounds the currently underdetermined state of knowledge about global governance, its key institutions, agents, and practices. In doing so, the question “ What is global governance?” is retained as an important and reflective element of ongoing deliberative practices. It is suggested that this constitutes the distinctive and vital insight of deliberative approaches to global governance.

Global Political Economy

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Trade Regimes ◽  
Comprehensive Introduction ◽  
Empirical Material

This introduction to Global Political Economy offers a comprehensive introduction to global political economy, combining history, theory, and contemporary issues and debates. With a careful balance of empirical material and critical analysis, the chapters introduce readers to the diversity of perspectives in GPE, and encourage readers to unpack claims and challenge explanations. This new edition features a brand new chapter on the global trade regimes and thorough updates throughout to reflect the rise of new actors, especially the BRICs, and the role of developing economies in global governance. The second section of the text gives emphasis to questions of global trade and production.

scholarly journals Critical Approaches to Global Health

2018 ◽  
pp. 84-100
Author(s):  
Alan Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Philosophical Idea ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Critical Perspectives

This chapter places the critical analysis of global health in wider intellectual and political perspective, situating critical thinking in relation to the philosophical idea of Enlightenment and ensuing debates about the nature of power, knowledge, and freedom. After a brief genealogy of critical thought, the chapter considers some of the main sources of critical thinking in global health and provides a brief survey of critical takes on health in the era of globalisation. It then considers three influential varieties of critique—of political economy, of representation, and of biopower—while touching on other critical perspectives, including feminism and anticolonial thought. As a way of prompting further reflection, the concluding section of the chapter considers recent debates about the problems of the critical enterprise itself.

scholarly journals Land Grabbing and Global Governance: Critical Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matias E. Margulis ◽  
Nora McKeon ◽  
Saturnino M. Borras
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Land Grabbing ◽  
Critical Perspectives

scholarly journals Deliberation and global civil society: agency, arena, affect

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES BRASSETT ◽  
WILLIAM SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
Common View ◽  
Deliberative Politics ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function ◽  
Affective Dimensions

AbstractThe article provides a critical analysis of the role and function of global civil society within deliberative approaches to global governance. It critiques a common view that global civil society can/should act as an agent for democratising global governance and seeks to explore the importance of global civil society as an arena of deliberation. This more reconstructive aim is supplemented by an empirically focused discussion of the affective dimensions of global civil society, in general, and the increasingly important use of film, in particular. Ultimately, this then yields an image of the deliberative politics of global civil society that is more reflective of the differences, ambiguities and contests that pervade its discourses about global governance. This is presented as a quality that debates about deliberative global governance might learn from as well as speak to.

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