Global Governance Book Reviews

The CLPE Global Governance Book Review Project offers an electronic platform for broad range of reviews that will guide and inform an interdisciplinary understanding of governance today. The Project focuses on how multiple and contemporary conceptions of governance affect law, regulation and political economy. We welcome reviews that critically:

1. assess traditional understandings of governance;
2. describe how governance is complicated by social pressures and encourage governments to share their authority to govern with business organizations,civil society and/or state and non-state actors;
3. reflect on how the sharing the governance burden is leading to re-conceptions of authority, as nation-states and non-state governance entrepreneurs alike challenge the traditional notion of how society ought to be managed; and/or
4. explore the myriad of new public-private governance arrangements, which may be national, transnational and international in nature.

Reviewers should provide a brief synopsis of the author's main arguments, which they then contextualize within respective fields (less than 2000 words). Reviewers are encouraged to select a book for review and CLPE Network will provide review copies when possible. Interested reviewers should contact the CLPE Global Governance Book Review Editors with requests.

Fenner Stewart (FennerStewart@osgoode.yorku.ca) and Sujith Xavier (SujithXavier@osgoode.yorku.ca), CLPE Global Governance Book Review Editors

September 2010