Lecturer: Anita Lacey

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This course examines the structures, norms and practices of contemporary global governance. The course introduces students to theoretical concepts of and key debates concerning global governance, and the place of these debates in disciplinary international relations. We will look at the various actors and frameworks of global governance, particularly key contemporary institutions of global governance, including the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The role of the sovereign state and non-state actors within these frameworks and practices of global governance will be considered. Following this, the course will turn to focus on a number of contemporary empirical case-studies of global governance. The course is taught in a seminar format.

Suggested readings 

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Barnett, Michael, and Raymond Duvall, eds. Power in Global Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Burchill, Scott, and others. Theories of International Relations. 3rd ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Cox , R. W. "Structural Issues of Global Governance." In Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations, edited by S. Gill, 259-89. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Craig, David, and Doug Porter. Development Beyond Neoliberalism: Governance, Poverty Reduction and Political Economy. London: Routledge, 2006.

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Dean, Mitchell. Governing Societies: Political Perspectives on Domestic and International Rule. Berkshire: Open University Press, 2007.

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---. Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society. London: Sage, 1999.

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Dunne, Tim, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith, eds. International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Falk, Richard A. On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics. Cambridge: Polity, 1995. introduction & chapter 1: 1-46.

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Foucault, Michel. "Governmentality." In The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality: With Two Lectures By and an Interview With Michel Foucault, edited by Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, Peter Miller, 87-104. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991.

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Haas, Peter M., Robert O. Keohane, and Marc A. Levy, eds. Institutions for the Earth: Sources of Effective International Environmental Protection. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.

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Harris, Errol E., and James A. Yunker, eds. Toward Genuine Global Governance: Critical Reactions to ‘Our Global Neighborhood’. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1999.

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Karns, Margaret P., and Karen A. Mingst. International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance. Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004.

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Larner, Wendy, and William Waltersers, eds. Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces. London: Routledge, 2004.

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Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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Senghaas, Dieter. "Global Governance: How Could it be Conceived?" Security Dialogue 24, no.3 (1993): 247-256.

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Shaw, Martin. Theory of the Global State: Globality as Unfinished Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Young, Oran R., ed. Global Governance: Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997. chapter 1: 1-23.

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Seminar readings

Global governance and globalization debates
Ideas of global governance
Global governance and the State
Global governance beyond the State?
Governmentality and global governance
Institutional governance: the actors
Global civil society and its role in global governance
A case study of global governance: global poverty reduction
Challenging institutional global governance
Global governance and issues of securities and insecurities
Global governance: mapping alternative concepts and futures

Global governance and globalization debates

Essential readings

Berger, Mark T., and Heloise Weber. "Beyond State-Building: Global Governance and the Crisis of the Nation-State System in the 21st Century." Third World Quarterly 27, no. 1 (2006): 201-8. Available online via the Library database Academic Search Premier.

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Held, David. "At the Global Crossroads: The End of the Washington Consensus and the Rise of Global Social Democracy." Globalizations 2, no. 1 (2005): 95-113.

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Scholte, Jan Aart. "What is Globalization? The Definitional Issue - Again." CSGR Working Paper no. 109/02 (December 2002): 2-34.

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Amin, Ash. "Placing Globalization." Theory, Culture and Society 14, no. 2 (1997): 123-37.

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Archibugi, Daniele, and David Held, eds. Cosmopolitan Democracy: An Agenda for a New World Order. Cambridge, MA.: Polity Press, 1995.

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Balibar, Etienne. "Strangers as Enemies: Further Reflections on the Aporias of Transnational Citizenship." Distinguished Visiting Lecturer address, Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University, 16 March, 2006.

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Bauman, Zygmunt. Postmodernity and Its Discontents. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

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Beck, Ulrich. What is Globalization? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000.

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Broad, Robin. "The Washington Consensus Meets the Global Backlash: Shifting Debates and Policies." Globalizations 1, no. 2 (2004): 129-154.

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Brysk, Alison, and Gershon Shafir, eds. People Out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights, and the Citizenship Gap. New York: Routledge, 2004.

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Cheah, Pheng, and Bruce Robbins, eds. Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

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Collingwood, Viviene, and Louis Logister. "State of the Art: Addressing the INGO 'Legitimacy Deficit'." Political Studies Review 3, no. 2 (2005): 175-92.

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Comaroff, Jean, and John L. Comaroff, eds. Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Durham, NC.: Duke University Press, 2001.

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Goulet, Denis. "Global Governance, Dam Conflicts and Participation." Human Rights Quarterly 27 (2005): 881-907.

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Held, David, and Anthony McGrew. Globalization/Anti-Globalization: Beyond the Great Divide. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity, 2007.

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Held, David, and Anthony McGrew, eds. Globalization Theory: Approaches and Controversies. Cambridge: Polity, 2007.

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Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. "The Future of Globalization." Cooperation and Conflict 37, no. 3 (2002): 247-65.

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Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999.

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Kapstein, Ethan B. "Winners and Losers in the Global Economy." International Organization 54, no. 2 (2000): 359-384.

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Karns, Margaret P., and Karen A. Mingst. International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publications, 2004. Chap. 7.

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Kiely, Ray. "Globalization and Poverty, and the Poverty of Globalization Theory." Current Sociology 53, no. 6 (2005): 895-914.

Kohli, Atul. State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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---. "State, Society, and Development." In Political Science: The State of the Discipline, edited by Ira Katznelson and Helen V. Milner, 84-117. New York: Nelson, 2002.

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Rosenberg, Justin. "Globalization Theory: A Post Mortem." International Politics 42, no. 1 (2005): 2-74.

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Rudra, Nita. "Globalisation and the Decline of the Welfare State in Less Developed Countries." International Organization 56, no. 2 (2002): 411-445.

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Strange, Susan. "The Westfailure System." Review of International Studies 25, no. 3 (1999): 345-354.

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Tarrow, Sidney. "Transnational Politics: Contention and Institutions in International Politics." Annual Review of Political Science 4 (2001): 1-20.

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Urry, John. Global Complexity. Malden, Ma.: Polity Press, 2003.

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Van Den Anker, C. "Cosmopolitan Justice and the Globalization of Capitalism: The UNDP and ILO Proposals." Globalizations 2, no. 2 ( Sept. 2005): 254-70.

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Weiss, Linda. "Global Governance, National Strategies: How Industrialized States Make Room to Move Under the WTO." Review of International Political Economy 12, no. 5 (2005): 723-49.

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Wolf, Martin. "Globalization and Global Economic Governance." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 20, no. 1 (2004): 72-84.

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Ideas of global governance

Essential readings

Dingwerth, Klaus, and Philipp Pattberg. "Global Governance as a Perspective on World Politics." Global Governance 12, no. 2 (2006): 185-203.

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Rosenau, James N. "Governance in the Twenty-First Century." Global Governance 1 (1995): 13-43.

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Walters, W. "Some Critical Notes on Governance." Studies in Political Economy 73 (2004): 27-46.

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Recommended readings

Craig, Campbell. "The Resurgent Idea of World Government." Ethics and International Affairs 22, no. 2 (2008): 133-142.

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Dryzek, John S. "Transnational Democracy in an Insecure World." International Political Science Review 27, no. 2 (2006): 101-119.

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Edwards, Meredith. "Participatory Governance into the Future: Roles of Government and Community Sectors." Australian Journal of Public Administration 60, no. 3 (2001): 78-88.

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Karns, Margaret P., and Karen A. Mingst. International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance . Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner Publications, 2004. Chaps. 1-2.

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Krahmann, Elke. "National, Regional and Global Governance: One Phenomenon or Many?" Global Governance 9, no. 3 (2003): 323-46.

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Martin, Lisa L., and Beth A. Simmons. "Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions." International Organization International Organization at Fifty: Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics 52, no. 4 (1998): 729-757.

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Rose, Nikolas. Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Schofield, Barry. "Partners in Power: Governing the Self-Sustaining Community." Sociology 36, no. 3 (2002): 663-83.

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Scholte, Jan Aart. "Civil Society and Democracy in Global Governance." Global Governance 8, no. 3 (2002): 281-304.

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Steffek, Jens. "The Legitimation of International Governance: A Discourse Approach." European Journal of International Relations 9, no. 2 (2003): 240-275.

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Webb, Adam K. "The Calm Before the Storm? Revolutionary Pressures and Global Governance." International Political Science Review 27, no. 1 (2006): 73-92.

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Woods, Ngaire. "Holding Intergovernmental Institutions to Account." Ethics and International Affairs 17, no. 1 (2003): 69-80.

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Global governance and the State

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Betts, Alexander. "North-South Cooperation in the Refugee Regime: The Role of Linkages." Global Governance 14, no. 2 (2008): 157-78.

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Brysk, Alison. "Global Good Samaritans? Human Rights Foreign Policy in Costa Rica." Global Governance 11, no. 4 (2005): 445-466.

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Strange, Susan. "The Westfailure System." Review of International Studies 25, no. 3 (1999): 345-354.

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Recommended Readingss

Abbott, Kenneth W., and others. "The Concept of Legalization." International Organization 54, no. 3 (Summer 2000): 401-20.

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Abbott, Kenneth W., and Duncan Snidal. "Why States Act Through Formal International Organizations." Journal of Conflict Resolution 42, no. 1 (1998): 3-32.

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Bull, Hedley. The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. 3-50.

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Burchill, Scott, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit and Jacqui True. Theories of International Relations. 2nd ed. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

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Carr, Edward. H. The Twenty Years Crisis 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations. 2nd ed. New York: Harper and Row, 1946. chaps. 2, 5, 6.

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Cox, Robert W. "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory." Millennium 10, no. 2 (1981): 126-155.

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Gill, Stephen. "Globalisation, Market Civilisation and Disciplinary Neoliberalism." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 24, no. 3 (1995): 399–423.

Haggard, Stephan, and Beth A. Simmons. "Theories of International Regimes." International Organization 41, no. 3 (1987): 491-517.

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Hall, Rodney Bruce, and Thomas J. Bierstekerr, eds. The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Ikenberry, G. John, and Charles A. Kupchan. "Socialization and Hegemonic Power." International Organization 44, no. 3 (1990): 283-315.

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Khagram, Sanjeev. "Possible Future Architectures of Global Governance: A Transnational Perspective/Prospective." Global Governance 12, no. 1 (2006): 97-117.

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Martin, L. "Neoliberalism." In International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, edited by Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith, 71-88. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Mearsheimer, John J. "The False Promise of International Institutions." International Security 19, no. 3 (1994): 5-49.

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---. "Structural Realism." In International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, edited by Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith, 71-88. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Neuman, Iver B. "The English School and the Practices of World Society." Review of International Studies 27, no. 3 (2001): 503-507.

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Reus-Smit, C. "Constructivism." In Theories of International Relations. 2nd ed., edited by Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit and Jacqui True, 209-230. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2001.

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Risse, Thomas. "Global Governance and Communicative Action." Government and Opposition 39, no. 2 (2004): 288-313.

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Rosenau, James N., and Ernst-Otto Czempiel, eds. Governance Without Government: Order and Change in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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Slaughter, Anne-Marie. "Disaggregated Sovereignty: Towards the Public Accountability of Global Government Networks." Government and Opposition 39, no. 2 (2004): 159-190.

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Sterling-Folker, Jennifer. "Realist Environment, Liberal Process and Domestic Level Variables." International Studies Quarterly 41, no. 1 (1997): 1-25.

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Waltz, Kenneth N. "Political Structures." In Neorealism and its Critics, edited by Robert O. Keohane, 70-97. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

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Wendt, Alexander. "Anarchy is What States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics." International Organization 46, no. 2 (1992): 391-425.

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Global governance beyond the State?

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Ayers, Alison J. "Imperial Liberties: Democratisation and Governance in the 'New” Imperial Order." Political Studies 57, no. 1 (2009): 1-27.

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Rai, Shirin. "Gendering Global Governance." International Feminist Journal of Politics 6, no. 4 (2004): 579-602.

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Smith, Steve. "Singing Our World Into Existence: International Relations Theory and September 11." International Studies Quarterly 48, no. 3 (2004): 499-515.

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Anghie, Arjun. "Decolonizing the Concept of ‘Good Governance'." In Decolonizing International Relations, edited by Branwen Gruffydd Jones, 109-130. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.

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Chowdhry, Geeta, and Sheila Nair. "Introduction." In Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations: Reading race, gender and class, edited by Geeta Chowdhry and Sheila Nair, 1-32. New York: Routledge, 2002.

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Halperin, Sandra. "International Relations Theory and the Hegemony of Western Conceptions of Modernity." In Decolonizing International Relations, edited by Branwen Gruffydd Jones, 43-63. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.

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Held, David. "Principles of the Cosmopolitan Order." In The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, edited by Gillian Brock and Harry Brighouse, 10-27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Keck, Margaret E., and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. 

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Ling, L. H. M. "Cultural Chauvinism and the Liberal International Order: West Versus Rest in Asia’s Financial Crisis." In Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations: Reading race, gender and class, edited by Geeta Chowdhry and Sheila Nair, 115-141. New York: Routledge, 2002.

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Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses." In Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, edited by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, Lourdes Torres, 51-80. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

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Steans, Jill. Gender and International Relations: Issues, Debates and Future Directions. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity, 2006. 7-19.

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Tickner, J. Ann. Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. pp. 27-66.

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Governmentality and global governance

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Larner, Wendy, and William Walters. "Introduction: Global Governmentality." In Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces, edited by Wendy Larner and William Walters, 1-20. London: Routledge, 2004.

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Rojas, Cristina. "Governing Through the Social: Representations of Poverty and Global Governmentality." In Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces, edited by Wendy Larner and William Walters, 97-115. London: Routledge, 2004.

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Sending, Ole Jacob, and Iver B. Neuman. "Governance to Governmentality: Analyzing NGOs, States, and Power." International Studies Quarterly 50, no. 3 (2006): 651-672.

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Appadurai, Arjun. "Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics." Environment and Urbanization 13, no. 2 (2001): 23-43.

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Brysk, Alison. "Global Good Samaritans? Human Rights Foreign Policy in Costa Rica." Global Governance 11, no. 4 (2005): 445-466.

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Caney, Simon. "Cosmopolitan Justice and Institutional Design: An Egalitarian Liberal Conception of Global Governance." Social Theory and Practice 32, no. 4 (2006): 725-756.

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Craig, David, and Doug Porter. Development Beyond Neoliberalism: Governance, Poverty Reduction and Political Economy. London: Routledge, 2006. Chap. 1.

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Cruikshank, Barbara. "The Will to Empower: Technologies of Citizenship and the War on Poverty." Socialist Review 23, no. 4 (1994): 29-55.

Dale, Roger. "Forms of Governance, Governmentality and the EU’s Open Method of Coordination." In Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces, edited by Wendy Larner and William Walters. London: Routledge, 2004.

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Dean, Mitchell. Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society. Thousand Oaks, Ca.: Sage, 1999. Chap. 1: 9-39.

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---. "Liberal Government and Authoritarianism." Economy and Society 31, no. 1 (2002): 37-61.

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Devetak, R. "Critical Theory." In Theories of International Relations. 2nd ed., edited by Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit and Jacqui True, 55-180. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2001.

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Devetak, R. "Postmodernism." In Theories of International Relations. 2nd ed., edited by Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit and Jacqui True, 161-187. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2001.

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Dunne, Timothy. "International Society: Theoretical Promises Fulfilled?" Cooperation and Conflict 30, no. 2 (1995): 125-154.

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Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge, translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. New York: Pantheon, 1972.

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---. "Governmentality." In The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality: With Two Lectures By and an Interview With Michel Foucault, edited by Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, Peter Miller, 87-104. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991.

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---. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, translated by Robert Hurley, vol. 1. New York: Random House, 1979.

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---. "Power." In Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, edited by Paul Rabinow ; translated by Robert Hurley and others, vol. 3. London : Penguin, 2000.

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May, Jon, Paul Cloke and Sarah Johnsen. "Re-Phasing Neo-Liberalism: From Governance to Governmentality - New Labour and Britain's Crisis of Street Homelessness." Antipode 37, no. 4 (Sept. 2005): 703-30.

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Perry, Richard Warren, and Bill Maurer. "Globalization and Governmentality: An Introduction." In Globalization Under Construction: Governmentality, Law and Identity, edited by Richard Warren Perry and Bill Maurer, ix-xxi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

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Rojas, Cristina. "Governing Through the Social: Representations of Poverty and Global Governmentality." In Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces, edited by Wendy Larner and William Walters, 97-115. London: Routledge, 2004.

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Rose, Nikolas. Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Rubenstein, Diane. "Did You Pack Your Bags Yourself? Governmentality After 9/11." CR: The New Centennial Review 3, no. 2 (2003): 302-331.

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