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Book SynopsisDescribes a world in which government officials - police investigators, financial regulators, even judges and legislators - exchange information and coordinate activity across national borders to tackle crime, terrorism, and the routine daily grind of international interactions.
Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2004 Lionel Gelber Prize One of Times Literary Supplement's International Books of the Year for 2004 Honorable Mention for the 2004 Award Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Government and Political Science, Association of American Publishers "[An] important [book]. By showing how today's world--of what she calls 'disaggregated states'--actually works, Slaughter cuts the ground away from nationalists and internationalists alike. This, she says, is how it is, for America and everyone else. She also, quite clearly, believes that this how it should be ... because nothing else will work... I have absolutely no doubt that Slaughter is on to something."--Tony Judt, New York Review of Books "Breaking new ground in international relations theory, Slaughter ... offers genuinely original thinking... [A New World Order] generates much discussion about foreign policy."--Publishers Weekly "[A] major new statement about modern global governance... Particularly revealing is Slaughter's remarkable account of the cooperation between national judicial authorities and international and regional courts."--Foreign Affairs "[A] groundbreaking book, a striking combination of both pragmatism and vision... Slaughter represents the cutting intellectual edge of this decade's new way of thinking about global governance."--Kenneth Anderson, Harvard Law Review "This excellent, thought-provoking analysis covers a widespread but little studied shift in the way the world works."--Financial Times/getAbstract "The new world order of network governance will be a better place, especially if the reforms proposed by Slaughter are adopted and networks open up, enabling broader participation and increased accountability."--Andras Sajo, International Journal of Constitutional Law
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 1. The Globalization Paradox: Needing More Government and Fearing It 8 2. The Disaggregated State 12 3. A New World Order 15 4. A Just New World Order 27 5. Conclusion: Pushing the Paradigm 31 CHAPTER 1 Regulators: The New Diplomats 36 1. A New Phenomenon? 41 2. Where Are They? 45 3. What Do They Do? 51 4. Conclusion 61 CHAPTER 2 Judges: Constructing a Global Legal System 65 1. Constitutional Cross-Fertilization 69 2. Toward a Global Community of Human Rights Law 79 3. The Role of National Courts in the Construction of the European Community Legal System 82 4. Judicial Cooperation and Conflict in Transnational Litigation 85 5. Meeting Face to Face 96 6. Conclusion 100 CHAPTER 3 Legislators: Lagging Behind 104 1. Legislators Finding Their Voice on the World Stage 107 2. Legislative Networks as Catalysts and Correctives for Regional Integration 119 3. Helping Legislators "Do Their Work Better" 125 4. Conclusion 127 CHAPTER 4 A Disaggregated World Order 131 1. The Horizontal Dimension: Networks of Networks 135 2. The Vertical Dimension 144 3. Government Networks and Traditional International Organizations: Interconnected Worlds 152 4. Conclusion 162 CHAPTER 5 An Effective World Order 166 1. What Government Networks Do Now 171 2. What Government Networks Could Do 195 3. Conclusion 213 CHAPTER 6 A Just World Order 216 1. Problems with Government Networks 217 2. A Menu of Potential Solutions 230 3. Global Norms Regulating Government Networks 244 4. Conclusion 257 Conclusion 261 1. Government Networks and Global Public Policy 262 2. National Support for Government Networks 264 3. Disaggregated Sovereignty 266 Notes 273 Bibliography 319 Index 333
