China and India as Emerging Global Governance Actors: Challenges for Developing and Developed Countries
China and India as Emerging Global Governance Actors: Challenges for Developing and Developed Countries
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中国和印度作为新兴的全球治理参与者:发展中国家和发达国家面临的挑战
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10.1111/j.1759-5436.2006.tb00253.x
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2006
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Dirk Messner
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J. Humphrey;Dirk Messner
1 Introduction The debate on global governance that intensified at the end of the Cold War reflected the recognition that accelerating globalisation was creating crossborder and global problems that could not be solved within the ambit of nation states pursuing go-italone policies. Rather, these problems needed to be tackled politically on the basis of new forms of ‘governance beyond the nation state’(Zürn 1998; Rosenau 1997; Nye and Donahue 2000; Kennedy et al. 2002). International financial crises, banking regulation, global climate change, international property rights, migration flows, humanitarian interventions and the fight against transnational terrorism have increasingly become the objects of global policy processes, along with continued concern with long-established questions such as the international trade regime. The purpose and goals of global governance are defined against this background as the ‘development of a system of institutions and rules as well as of new mechanisms of international cooperation that make it possible to deal on a continuous basis with the problems posed by global challenges and transboundary phenomena’(Messner 2000: 284). The main aim of global governance is to avoid crises and turbulence within the global system, with an increasing range of issues seen as potentially threatening. But global governance amounts to more than this: it also has developmental objectives. For much of the 1990s, these were framed as a neoliberal policy agenda aimed at promoting faster economic growth through internal and external liberalisation. Increasing global integration was seen as a positive factor for economic growth (World Bank 2002), although the increasing salience of discussions addressing issues such as “managing globalisation” or “making globalisation work for the poor” indicated a perception that globalisation processes would need to be managed politically if they were to promote inclusive development. 1 The global governance discourse of the 1990s was geared to strengthening a multilateral world order and creating new patterns of cooperation between governmental and private actors. Indeed, this was the period in which corporations and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) became more prominent in global governance. Private and publicprivate organisations became more important in a variety of global governance institutions, and in particular in standards setting around finance, trade, labour and the environment (Nadvi and Wältring 2004). Scholte (2000: 151) refers to the trend of private sector actors playing an increasing role in regulatory activities at the global level as the “privatisation of governing”. 2 Nevertheless, the emergence of a multi-actor, multilevel global governance system did not appear to create space for effective participation by developing countries in global governance institutions (Rodrik 1997; Maggi and Messner 2002). The limited participation and influence of developing countries in global governance institutions is often remarked upon. Even in trade negotiations, which have provided many opportunities for developing countries to develop understanding and capabilities, the most decisive indication of developing country capacity to frame agendas and stake out positions occurred