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Governing Globalization

Governing Globalization

Challenges for Democracy and Global Society

Edward A. Kolodziej

London New York

Published by Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd

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Copyright 2016 by Edward A. Kolodziej

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.

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ISBN: HB 978-1-78348-762-2

PB 978-1-78348-763-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kolodziej, Edward A., author.

Title: Governing globalization : challenges for democracy and global society / Edward A. Kolodziej.

Description: London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015049755 (print) | LCCN 2016008693 (ebook) | ISBN 9781783487622 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781783487639 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781783487646 (electronic)

Subjects: LCSH: GlobalizationPolitical aspects. | GlobalizationEconomic aspects. | International cooperation. | DemocracyInternational cooperation. | Legitimacy of governments.

Classification: LCC JZ1318 .K6516 2016 (print) | LCC JZ1318 (ebook) | DDC 303.48/2dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015049755

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.

Printed in the United States of America

To my wife, Antje

Contents

Acknowledgments

M y sincere thanks to my graduate students in Global Studies 500: Governing Globalization: The Pursuit of Order, Welfare, and Legitimacy. Student feedback and criticism perfected this volumes argument. Yaacov Vertzberger of Hebrew University and Roger Kanet of Miami University read earlier versions of the manuscript. Professors Hadi Esfahani, Larry Neal, and Mahdi Rastad critiqued the economic chapters. All made valuable suggestions that strengthened the manuscript.

Tom Ewing, John Laich, and Harold Chang were unfailingly excellent research assistants. Lynn Charters, the office manager for the Center for Global Studies during my tenure as director, and Kathleen Anderson-Conner, who occupied the same post when I was director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, provided timely and flawless logistical support through the many revisions of the volume.

The Centers global studies librarian, Lynne Rudasill, was always at the ready in replying to my seemingly endless requests for access to materials.

I am also indebted to Anna Reeve, senior commissioning editor of Rowman & Littlefield International, for guiding the manuscript through the publication process and for soliciting critiques of the volume by two anonymous reviewers, who recommended publication.

My son, Professor Matthew Eliot Kolodziej, graciously permitted use of one of his arresting paintings as the cover for the volume. In this case the reader is, indeed, prompted to judge the book by its cover.

The final editing, formatting, and permissions for citations in the volume are the amazing work of Merrily Shaw. I quiet my embarrassment for disturbing her merited retirement to assume these onerous tasks because I know that the volume would have been delayed months more and have included countless errors in form and substance absent her invaluable contributions and those of Doug, her spouse.

As she has for over fifty years, my wife, Antje Heberle Kolodziej, provided the steady and unconditional encouragement and familial support needed to pursue a scholarly career, raise four sons, and enjoy nine grandchildren. I likewise need to salute the enormous contributions she has made over the years in tirelessly reading, editing, and correcting my inevitably flawed manuscripts.

Responsibility for errors of form and substance remain mine.

Edward A. Kolodziej

Emeritus Research Professor Political Science

Champaign, Illinois

Introduction

T his volume evaluates the effectiveness and legitimacy of democratic solutions to governance of the global society. Specifically, it assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the responses of the democratic peoples and states to three imperatives of governanceOrder, Welfare, and Legitimacy (OWL imperatives)and identifies reforms to bolster this governing model.

The contesting power structures, rival processes of decision-making, and competing incentives for actor choices and action with regard to OWL imperatives, developed throughout the volume, are foundation stones for the governance of all human societies. Absent workable solutions to OWL imperatives, no human society can replicate itself through time, space, and changing environmental circumstances, social and physical. Governance is the glue that holds a society together. It also protects it from external threats to its human and material composition. This volume raises the key question of whether democratic solutions to OWL imperatives can prevail within a resistant global society, to counter and contain powerful antidemocratic forces.

A global society has emerged for the first time in the evolution of the human species. It is the evolving and ever-enlarging product of the ongoing, relentless, multiplying, and reinforcing processes of globalization. From the broadest possible perspective, this volume views globalization as the rise of a global society. The principal properties of this morphological change in the human condition are the connectedness and interdependence of the worlds diverse and divided populations. Multiple forms of instant social and commercial media and ease of transportation increasingly connect the seven billion members of the human speciesnine to ten billion by 2050. The rapid transfer of the Ebola virus from Liberia to Dallas, Texas, in the fall of 2014 by an errant traveler, and the subsequent transmission of the virus to health care professionals, broadcast instantly to a global audience by social and public media sources, illustrates these connections.

More significant than the expanding and deepening connectedness of the worlds populations is their mutual dependence on each other to get what they want. Members of the global society increasingly depend on the decisions, actions, and deployment of power of other, largely anonymous actors in their pursuit of what they care about. Their physical security, the provision of their material needs, and the validation of their identities and most profound values hinge on the cooperation, however achieved, of other actorsindividuals, groups, national populations, states, multilateral corporations, and social movements as well as hosts of private and state-based international organizations. The instances of interdependence of particular concern to this volume are those that cut across state boundaries to form a global society. Particular attention is directed to those nodes of interdependence in which the democracies and their populations are enmeshed.

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