Symposium: Authority, legitimacy, and contestation in global governance

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Theory Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI:10.1017/s1752971920000378

Orfeo Fioretos, J. Tallberg

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Abstract

Abstract As global governance institutions appear increasingly contested by state and non-state actors alike, understanding their origin, operation, and impact is becoming ever more urgent. This symposium uses Michael Zürn's A Theory of Global Governance: Authority, Legitimacy, and Contestation (OUP, 2018) as a springboard to explore the state of global governance theory. A Theory opens new terrain and advances bold and original arguments, including the contention that global governance is itself best understood as a political system. It analyzes a cycle from rising authority beyond the state through the 20th century, to ensuing legitimation problems toward the century's end, to the politicization and contestation triggered by such problems. A book of such ambition inevitably elicits queries within diverse international relations research communities. This symposium features seven articles from diverse traditions in engagement with A Theory's understanding of global contestation, authority, and legitimacy. These are followed by a response from Zürn. An introduction situates A Theory within extant research on global governance, highlights its endogenous theory of global politics, and identifies the stakes of deepening research on the sources of global authority, contestation, and political legitimation.

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专题讨论会:全球治理中的权威、合法性和争论

摘要随着国家和非国家行为者对全球治理机构的竞争日益激烈，了解其起源、运作和影响变得越来越紧迫。本次研讨会以迈克尔·Zürn的《全球治理理论：权威、合法性和竞争》（OUP，2018）为跳板，探讨全球治理理论的现状。一种理论开辟了新的领域，提出了大胆而新颖的论点，包括全球治理本身最好被理解为一种政治制度的论点。它分析了一个循环，从20世纪国家之外的权力崛起，到本世纪末随之而来的合法化问题，再到这些问题引发的政治化和争论。一本如此雄心勃勃的书不可避免地会引起不同国际关系研究界的质疑。本次研讨会有七篇来自不同传统的文章，涉及A Theory对全球竞争、权威和合法性的理解。随后是Zürn的回应。引言将A理论置于现有的全球治理研究中，强调其内生的全球政治理论，并确定了深化对全球权威、争论和政治合法性来源的研究的利害关系。

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期刊介绍： Editorial board International Theory (IT) is a peer reviewed journal which promotes theoretical scholarship about the positive, legal, and normative aspects of world politics respectively. IT is open to theory of absolutely all varieties and from all disciplines, provided it addresses problems of politics, broadly defined and pertains to the international. IT welcomes scholarship that uses evidence from the real world to advance theoretical arguments. However, IT is intended as a forum where scholars can develop theoretical arguments in depth without an expectation of extensive empirical analysis. IT’s over-arching goal is to promote communication and engagement across theoretical and disciplinary traditions. IT puts a premium on contributors’ ability to reach as broad an audience as possible, both in the questions they engage and in their accessibility to other approaches. This might be done by addressing problems that can only be understood by combining multiple disciplinary discourses, like institutional design, or practical ethics; or by addressing phenomena that have broad ramifications, like civilizing processes in world politics, or the evolution of environmental norms. IT is also open to work that remains within one scholarly tradition, although in that case authors must make clear the horizon of their arguments in relation to other theoretical approaches.