Description
Book SynopsisAs citizens of a middle power, Canadians know how it feels to be objects of global forces. But they are also agents of globalization who have helped build structures of transnational governance that have highly uneven impacts on prosperity, human security, and the environment, often for the worse. This timely book argues that these imbalances need to be recognized and corrected.
A Perilous Imbalance situates Canada's experience of globalization in the context of three interlinked trends: the emergence of a global supraconstitution, the transformation of the nation-state, and the growth of governance beyond the nation-state. The authors advocate a revitalization of the Canadian state as a vehicle for pursuing human security, ecological integrity, and social emancipation, and for creating spaces in which progressive, alternative forms of law and governance can unfold. This book shines an urgent light on the dangerous imbalances in contemporary forms of globalized g
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
Part 1: Canada’s Emerging Supraconstitution
2 The Supraconstitution: A Framework for Analysis
3 Making the World Safe for Transnational Capital: The Economic Supraconstitution
4 Good Citizens of Planet Earth? The Weakness of Global Social and Environmental Governance
5 Taking the Measure of the Supraconstitution
Part 2: Consolidating or Confronting Hegemony? Governance Within and Beyond the State
6 From Retreat to Revitalization: The Paradoxes of the Globalized State
7 Global Law Beyond the State: Governance by Business and Civil Society
8 Rethinking Canadian Governance and Law in a Globalized World
Notes
References
Index
