Contesting Global Governance

Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements

Robert O'Brien author Marc Williams author Jan Aart Scholte author Anne Marie Goetz author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

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A rich analysis of the increasingly important engagement between international institutions and global social movements.

This book argues that increasing engagement between international institutions and global social movements is producing a new form of international organisation. The authors provide a rich analysis of the relationship between the IMF, World Bank, and World Trade Organization, and environmental, labour and women's movements.This book argues that increasing engagement between international institutions and sectors of civil society is producing a new form of global governance. The authors investigate 'complex multilateralism' by studying the relationship between three multilateral economic institutions (the IMF, World Bank, and World Trade Organization), and three global social movements (environmental, labour and women's movements). They provide a rich comparative analysis of the institutional response to social movement pressure, tracing institutional change, policy modification and social movement tactics as they struggle to influence the rules and practices governing trade, finance and development regimes. The contest to shape global governance is increasingly being conducted upon a number of levels and amongst a diverse set of actors. Analysing a unique breadth of institutions and movements, this book charts an important part of that contest.

"empirically rich" Foreign Affairs
"...[the book] usefully highlights the unresolved tensions between state-sponsored institutions and growing transnational civic activism." Foreign Affairs
"useful study...the analysis is refreshing...this book remains useful for scholars of social movements." The Georgetown Public Policy Review Fall 2001

ISBN: 9780521773157

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm

Weight: 580g

280 pages