Spring/Summer 2005 - University of Toronto Press Publishing

POLITICAL SCIENCE / ECONOMICSThe New GlobalGovernanceA Baroque ApproachGilles PaquetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA PRESS – GOVERNANCE SERIESOver the last few decades, the Westphalian nationstatehas lost its hegemonic position in the systemof geo-governance. A dispersive revolution has ledto the emergence of powerful new networked businessorganizations, new subsidiarity-focused governments,and increasingly virtual, elective, andmalleable communities. This in turn has led to thecrystallization of distributed governance regimes,based on a wider variety of more fluid and alwaysevolving groups of stakeholders.In The New Global Governance, Gilles Paquetdevelops a general conceptual framework to deal withthe new evolving reality of global governance. He usesthis framework to critically examine the evolving territorialgovernance (hemispheric governance, mesoinnovationsystems, smart city-regions) and tacklesthe more complex governance challenges raised bysustainability and common-property resources likeoceans. Paquet further explores the implications ofthis emerging baroque polycentric geo-governance onthe new forms of stewardship and its impact on citizenship,federalism, and other technologies of coordination,and reflects on the sort of subversive bricolagerequired if the missing mechanisms for effective coordinationare to be put in place.The New Global Governance will be of greatinterest to students and scholars interested in governance,organizational design, international affairs,and political studies.Gilles Paquet is a professor emeritus and seniorresearch fellow in the School of Political Studies atthe University of Ottawa and the president of theRoyal Society of Canada.On Global GovernanceCritical Discourses and PracticesEdited by Claire Turenne Sjolander andJean-François ThibaultUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA PRESS – GOVERNANCE SERIESThe concept of global governance has been muchdiscussed over the past decade, since the publicationin 1995 of the report of the Commission onGlobal Governance, Our Global Neighbourhood.This collection provides an assessment of globalgovernance as both discourse and practice, situatingnational and international attempts to respondto several challenges. These challenges include: the‘shrinking’ of the ‘global neighbourhood;’ the emergenceof a global civil society; the rising interdependenceamong both state and non-state actors withininternational society; and the rise in the number andcomplexity of transnational issues in conjunctionwith the failure or inability of national governmentsto deal with them while providing common goodsand security guarantees for their citizens.Examining the idea of global governance froma number of different theoretical and empirical perspectives,the contributors to On Global Governanceraise the limits of the practices of global governanceas they have emerged over the past ten years. Thecollection provides readers with both case studiesand theoretical debates, thereby allowing a broaderunderstanding of global governance and a firmerposition from which to critique it.Claire Turenne Sjolander is the director and associatedean of the School of Political Studies at theUniversity of Ottawa.Jean-François Thibault is an assistant professor inthe Department of Political Science at l’Universitéde Moncton.Approx. 300 pp / 6 x 9 / June 2005Paper ISBN 0-7766-0594-1 £22.50 $35.00 CApprox. 300 pp / 6 x 9 / June 2005Paper ISBN 0-7766-0595-X £22.50 $35.00 C48