Kevin Gray - Rising Powers and the Future of Global Governance

This volume contributes to the growing debate surrounding the impact that the rising powers are having on contemporary global political and economic governance. Through studies of Brazil, India, China, and other important developing countries within their respective regions such as Turkey and South Africa, we raise the question of the extent to which the challenge posed by the rising powers to global governance is likely to lead to an increase in democracy and social justice for the majority of the worlds peoples. By addressing such questions, the volume explicitly seeks to raise the broader normative question of the implications of this emergent redistribution of economic and political power for the sustainability and legitimacy of the emerging 21st century system of global political and economic governance. Questions of democracy, legitimacy, and social justice are largely ignored or under-emphasised in many existing studies, and the aim of this collection of chapters is to show that serious consideration of such questions provides important insights into the sustainability of the emerging global political economy and new forms of global governance.

This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Kevin Gray is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK. He is author of Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation (Routledge, 2008); editor (with Barry Gills) of People Power in an Era of Global Crisis Rebellion, Resistance and Liberation (Routledge, 2012); and is currently preparing a manuscript titled Labour, Geopolitics and Development in East Asia, under contract with Routledge.

Craig N. Murphy is Research Professor at the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. He is author of The United Nations Development Programme: A Better Way? (Cambridge University Press, 2009); (with J. Yates) The International Organization for Standardization (ISO): Global Governance through Voluntary Consensus (Routledge, 2009); and International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850 (Polity Press and Oxford University Press, 1994).

Edited by Shahid Qadir, University of London

THIRDWORLDS will focus on the political economy, development and cultures of those parts of the world that have experienced the most political, social, and economic upheaval, and which have faced the greatest challenges of the postcolonial world under globalisation: poverty, displacement and diaspora, environmental degradation, human and civil rights abuses, war, hunger, and disease. THIRDWORLDS serves as a signifier of oppositional emerging economies and cultures ranging from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and even those Souths within a larger perceived North, such as the U.S. South and Mediterranean Europe. The study of these otherwise disparate and discontinuous areas, known collectively as the Global South, demonstrates that as globalisation pervades the planet, the south, as a synonym for subalterity, also transcends geographical and ideological frontiers.

Terrorism and the Politics of Naming

Edited by Michael Bhatia

Reconstructing Post-Saddam Iraq

Edited by Sultan Barakat

From Nation-Building to State-Building

Edited by Mark T. Berger

Connecting Cultures

Edited by Emma Bainbridge

The Politics of Rights

Dilemmas for feminist praxis

Edited by Andrea Cornwall and Maxine Molyneux

The Long War Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States

Edited by Mark T. Berger and Douglas A. Borer

Market-led Agrarian Reform

Edited by Saturnino M. Borras, Jr.

After the Third World?

Edited by Mark T. Berger

Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms

Edited by Radhika Desai

Globalisation and Migration

New issues, new politics

Edited by Ronaldo Munck

Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstans Tulip Revolution

Motives, mobilizations and meanings

Edited by Sarah Cummings

War and Revolution in the Caucasus

Georgia Ablaze

Edited by Stephen F. Jones

Development, Violence and Insecurities

Edited by Mark T. Berger and Heloise Weber

Renewing International Labour Studies

Edited by Marcus Taylor

Youth in the Former Soviet South

Everyday Lives between Experimentation and Regulation

Edited by Stefan B. Kirmse

Political Civility in the Middle East

Edited by Frdric Volpi

The Transformation of Tajikistan

Sources of Statehood

Edited by John Heathershaw

Movement, Power and Place in Central Asia and Beyond

Contested Trajectories

Edited by Madeleine Reeves

People Power in an Era of Global Crisis

Rebellion, Resistance and Liberation

Edited by Barry K. Gills and Kevin Gray

EU Strategies on Governance Reform

Between Development and State-building

Edited by Wil Hout

Identity, Inequity and Inequality in India and China

Governing Difference

Edited by Ravinder Kaur and Ayo Wahlberg

The Personal and the Professional in Aid Work

Edited by Anne-Meike Fechter

Rising Powers and the Future of Global Governance

Edited by Kevin Gray and Craig N. Murphy

The Millennium Development Goals: Challenges, Prospects and Opportunities

Edited by Nana Poku

Development Perspectives from the Antipodes

Edited by Susanne Schech

Health, Drugs and Healing in Central Asia

Edited by Alisher Latypov

Rising Powers and the Future of Global Governance

Edited by

Kevin Gray and Craig N. Murphy

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