This essay reflects on Robert W. Cox’s work on global production, labour, and labour governance, and considers how his insights might illuminate the present conjuncture for labour in production. I work with an understanding of that conjuncture as involving the rise to pre-eminence of global production networks (GPNs) and global value chains (GVCs) as the contemporary expression of the ongoing g...

Schaller, Susanne: The Democratic Legitimacy of Private Governance. An Analysis of the Ethical Trading Initiative. Duisburg: Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg‐Essen (INEF Report, 91/2007). Private actors increasingly influence global governance and generate transnational rules and regulations. By creating soft law, they adopt governance tasks t...

In recent years, China has been getting increasingly involved in global health governance. As the largest developing country and the second largest economy in the world, China’s engagement in global health governance has drawn considerable attention in the rest of the world. In this viewpoint, China’s medical and health–related assistance to Africa has been used as a case study to analyse China...

INTRODUCTION This review identifies an agenda for global health by highlighting the current 'grand challenges' related to governance. SOURCES Literature from the disciplines of health policy and medicine, conference presentations and documents, and materials from international agencies (such as the World Health Organization). AREAS OF AGREEMENT The present approach to global health governan...

Global Environmental Governance provides a very eloquent and concise statement of the key international events and milestones, as well as the most relevant concepts and philosophies that have influenced the global environmental agenda over the past decades. James Gustave Speth and Peter M. Haas are two well-respected figures, widely recognized for their contributions to the debate of environmen...

Whilst the global governance architecture for the Internet has evolved at pace in the last ten years the EU's role and influence in its formation and development has been relatively understudied. This paper contributes to closing this gap in the literature through an investigation of how the EU has sought to shape the emerging environment for Internet governance in the context of its quest for ...