Global Governance In Question

Series Introduction Acknowledgements Acronyms Tables 1. Global Governance in Question 2. Common Sense Assumptions: Toward an Historical Materialist Critique of Global Governance 3. Global Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility 4. Global Governance and Transnational Debt 5. Global Governance and Development Aid 6. Beyond the Common Sense of Global Governance: New Research and Political Directions References Index

Susanne Soederberg is a Canada Research Chair in Global Political Economy and Associate Professor in International Development Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. She is author of The Politics of the New International Financial Architecture: Reimposing Neoliberal Domination in the Global South (Zed, 2005).

[An] acute and revealing examination of the economic difficulties facing the American empire ... Soederberg explains how the fortunes and future of global capitalism are dependent upon U.S. foreign policy. ... This book is essential reading for those who want to know why the poor get poorer while the rich talk endlessly, and what we can do to initiate real social change. -- Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz In her most recent book on global governance Susanne Soederberg exhibits a powerful critique of mainstream approaches to the political regulation of economic globalisation. Her analysis convincingly shows how the system of global governance has become a cornerstone of the new imperialism. The book is indispensable for students of International Polical Economy and a must for political activists geared toward internationally oriented forms of social transformations. -- Professor Elmar Altvater, Department of Political Science, Free University, Berlin Global governance is the latest buzzord. Now comes a study that brings clarity and critical analysis to this ill-defined topic. Professor Soederberg deconstructs global governance as an expression of the changing nature of capitalist power. She shows how it acts to normalize neo-liberalism and legitimize the increasingly repressive and coercive nature of global capitalism. Well researched and engaging to read, this book will be of great interest to scholars, students and the concerned public. -- William I. Robinson, University of California-Santa Barbara In this systematic analysis of 'governance', Susanne Soederberg de-mystifies the latest strategic euphemism in the neo-liberal arsenal. Her examination of corporate, debt, and aid relations in the global political economy reveals key discursive and institutional mechanisms by which the velvet glove of governance masks the iron hand of market rule. Global Governance in Question breaks new ground in disclosing the cumulative