Herausgeber ist Thomas Risse, Professor für Internationale Politik an der Freien Universität Berlin und Sprecher des Sonderforschungsbereichs 700 „Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit“. Das Buch kann direkt bei Columbia University Press bestellt werden.

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Paper, 312 pages, 2 figures, 14 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-15121-4
$20.00 / £14.00 

About the book:

Challenging common assumptions about sovereign states and the evolution of modern statehood, particularly the dominant paradigms supported by international relations theorists, development agencies, and international organizations, this volume explores strategies for effective and legitimate governance within a framework of weak and ineffective state institutions. Approaching the problem from the perspectives of political science, history, and law, contributors explore the factors that contribute to successful governance under conditions of limited statehood. These include the involvement of nonstate actors and nonhierarchical modes of political influence. Empirical chapters analyze security governance by nonstate actors, the contribution of public-private partnerships to promote the United Nations Millennium Goals, the role of business in environmental governance, and the problems of Western state-building efforts, among other issues. Recognizing these forms of governance as legitimate, the contributors clarify the complexities of a system the developed world must negotiate in the coming century.