Change in or of global governance?

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Theory Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI:10.1017/S175297192000038X

M. Barnett

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Abstract

Abstract Michael Zürn's Theory of Global Governance is an original, bold, and compelling argument regarding the causes of change in global governance. A core argument is that legitimation problems trigger changes in global governance. This contribution addresses two core features of the argument. Although I am persuaded that legitimacy matters, there are times when: legitimacy appears to be given too much credit to the relative neglect of other factors; other times when the lack of legitimacy has little discernible impact on the working of global governance; and unanswered questions about how the legitimacy of global governance relates to the legitimacy of the international order of which it is a part. The second feature is what counts as change in global governance. Zürn reduces change to either deepening or decline, overlooking the possible how of global governance. In contrast to Zürn's map of global governance that is dominated by hierarchies in the form of international organizations, an alternative map locates multiple modes of governance: hierarchies, markets, and networks. The kinds of legitimation problems that Zürn identifies, I argue, can help explain some of the movement from hierarchical to other modes of global governance.

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改变还是改变全球治理?

摘要迈克尔·Zürn的全球治理理论是关于全球治理变化原因的一个新颖、大胆和令人信服的论点。一个核心论点是，合法化问题会引发全球治理的变化。这篇文章阐述了论点的两个核心特征。尽管我相信合法性很重要，但有时：合法性似乎过于归功于对其他因素的相对忽视；其他时候，缺乏合法性对全球治理工作几乎没有明显影响；关于全球治理的合法性与国际秩序的合法性之间的关系的问题尚未得到解答。第二个特点是全球治理的变革。Zürn将变革简化为深化或衰退，忽略了全球治理的可能方式。与Zürn以国际组织形式由等级制度主导的全球治理地图不同，另一张地图定位了多种治理模式：等级制度、市场和网络。我认为，Zürn提出的合法化问题有助于解释从等级制到其他全球治理模式的一些转变。

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International Theory Multiple-

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