Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Nico Krisch
    Global governance as public authority: An introduction
    in International Journal of Constitutional Law , vol. 10, issue 4 ,  2012 ,  976-987
    How to make sense of global governance has been a long-standing puzzle for scholars. Work in international relations has sought to tackle it for two decades now, and more recently, lawyers, political theorists, sociologists, and anthropologists have joined the ever broader debate. Still, much of global governance remains a “mystery.” The multiplicity of its sites and actors, the various pathways of influence and authority, and the myriad factors driving its shape have made parsimonious accounts impossible and synthetic approaches at least difficult. Yet for long it seemed clear that these factors also rendered analogies with the domestic sphere problematic—the prevalence of informal action and of heterarchy rather than hierarchy led us to believe that we were confronted with governance “without government,” with a structure fundamentally different from national politics and law.
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