Governance, Sovereignty and Globalisation

Globalisation, Governance Reforms and Development

Globalisation and the International Governance of Modern Biotechnology Mapping Paper Globalisation and The Governance Of Biotechnology

This article focuses on the disjuncture between regulatory problems generated by the rapid development of, and subsequent trade in crop GMOs, and the ability of existing mechanisms of international governance to manage human and ecological risks associated with the new technology. The article assesses the ways in which globalisation of economic activity is reconfiguring patterns of production, ...

Sovereignty conditions and governance modes: An option theory approach

Grappling with Globalisation: Challenges for Economic Governance

D EMONSTRATIONS by citizen groups against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Seattle (29 November–3 December, 1999) and more recently against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, DC (16–17 April, 2000) raise issues about the legitimacy of globalisation processes. To examine key domestic institutional challenges posed by globalisation, this paper focuses on ...

Technology, globalisation, and governance: Research perspectives and prospects

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce global ICT programmes, defined as new and universal modes of organising mediated by technology and enacted through a novel mix of policy instruments, international institutions, business interests, and techno/managerial concepts. Largely unexplored in various fields, including information systems as well as many other social sciences studying innovati...