Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1. Introduction: Coherence and Contestation Part I: Confronting Global Governance with Established Perspectives 2. Realist Global Governance: Revisiting Cave! hic dragones and Beyond 3. Global Governance, Class, Hegemony: A Historical Materialist Perspective 4. Global Governance and Hegemony in the Modern World System 5. Global Governance: An English School Perspective 6. Regime Theory and the Quest for Global Governance 7. What’s Global about Global Governance? A Constructivist Account Part II: Global Governance as Catalyst for New Perspectives 8. Global Governance as Disaggregated Complexity 9. The European Human Rights Regime as a Case Study in the Emergence of Global Governance 10. A Private Authority Perspective on Global Governance 11. Contested Spaces: The Politics of Regional and Global Governance 12. Global Civil Society and Global Governance 13. Liberal Imperialism as Global Governance Perspective 14. Contending Perspectives on Global Governance: Dialogue and Debate List of Figures: 3.1 Paradigmatic Scales of Operation of Capital and Hegemonic Concepts of Control in Modern Capitalism 4.1 Evolutionary Patterns of World Capitalism 4.2 The Dynamics of Hegemonic Transitions List of Tables

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Alice D. Ba, Matthew J. Hoffmann