New Constitutionalism and World Order

Description

This path-breaking collection analyses the dialectic between legal and constitutional innovations intended to inscribe corporate power and market disciplines in world order, and the potential for challenges and alternative frameworks of governance to emerge. It provides a comprehensive approach to neo-liberal constitutionalism and regulation and limits to policy autonomy of states, and how this disciplines populations according to the intensifying demands of corporations and market forces in global market civilization. Contributors examine global and local public policy challenges and consider if the ongoing crises of capitalism and world order offer states and societies opportunities to challenge this loss of policy autonomy and potentially to refashion world order. Integrating approaches to governance and world order from both leading and emerging scholars, this is an innovative, indispensable source for policy-makers, civil society organizations, professionals and students in law, politics, economics, sociology, philosophy and international relations.

Stephen Gill is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto. A. Claire Cutler is Professor of International Law and International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria.

'The concept of 'the new constitutionalism' informs a distinctive, critical approach to the study of contemporary global governance that emphasizes concrete attempts to institutionalize neo-liberalism. This volume provides a welcome introduction to the range and depth of the scholarship that adopts this approach.' Craig N. Murphy, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations, Wellesley College and Research Professor of Global Governance, University of Massachusetts, Boston '... a comprehensive overview of work on new constitutionalism in a single volume.' Tore Fougner, International Affairs