there were once again high expectations that a major global health event - the ebola virus outbreak of 2014-2015 - would trigger meaningfully world health organization (who) reform and strengthen global health governance (ghg). rather than a “turning point,” however, the global community has gone back to business as usual. this has occurred against a backdrop of worldwide political turmoil, cha...

On May 4 and 5, 2012, international relations experts gathered at Princeton University for a workshop on " The Future of Liberal Internationalism: Global Governance in a Post–American Hegemonic Era. " The workshop followed on similar meetings in January 2010 and 2011, which addressed " Rivalry and Partnership: The Struggle for a New Global Governance Leadership " and " New Foundations for Globa...

The Washington Consensus, through which neoliberal global capitalist governance gained hegemony over the third world, entered a crisis in the late 1990s. Triggered by the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and by contestations of neoliberal governance from global civil society, two remakings of global capitalist governance can be identified: A ‘post-Washington consensus’ whose relation to neoliberali...

This paper addresses an important challenge for future earth system governance: how to ensure that governance norms that emerge from inter-state negotiations foster equity and sustainability at all levels from the local to the global. I look back on two decades of global climate change governance to clarify how norms can structure access to global public goods and the allocation of responsibili...

Jeremy Shiffman’s editorial appropriately calls on making all forms of power more apparent and accountable, notably productive power derived from expertise and claims to moral authority. This commentary argues that relationships based on productive power can be especially difficult to reveal in global health policy because of embedded notions about the nature of power and politics. Yet, it is e...

UN–Water was established in 2003 to coordinate United Nations activities on water. There have been no scientific assessments about this coordination mechanism and, hence, we focus on the role of UN–Water in global water governance. We use an analytical framework to conceptualize relevant natural and social phenomena, actors, and institutions in the field of global water governance. This framewo...

Scandals of corporate governance in the United States and Europe in the aftermath of theTMTbubblecaptured thepublic imagination. Inplay were the interests of senior executives in relation to investors, prompting debate over countries’ standards of corporate governance in the global market place. Ahold was (and is) an especially important instance, involving significant internal accounting and r...

Shiffman recently summarized lessons for network effectiveness from an impressive collection of case-studies. However, in common with most global health governance analysis in recent years, Shiffman underplays the important role of states in these global networks. As the body which decides and signs international agreements, often provides the resourcing, and is responsible for implementing ini...