Despite myriad global forces influencing the lives of individuals, societies, and polities, people continue to value their personal and communal independence. They insist on shaping the conditions of their existence to the fullest extent possible. This path-breaking book examines the institutions and organizations that mediate today's increasingly complex relationship between globalization and autonomy.Many formal and informal institutions - from the World Trade Organization to transnational legal and financial regimes to new governance arrangements for aboriginal communities in environmentally sensitive regions - are evolving, adapting to meet new challenges, or failing to adjust rapidly enough. The globalization-autonomy metric helps to interpret such developments and to clarify their implications."Global Ordering" convenes an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to re-imagine the circumstances under which integrative systemic forces may be aligned with irreducible commitments to individual and collective autonomy. Collectively, the authors of this innovative work map the new frontier of globalization studies.

Table of Contents:

Preface

1 Globalization, Autonomy, and Institutional Change / William D. Coleman, Louis W. Pauly, and Diana Brydon

Part 1: Systemic Themes

2 The United Nations, the Bretton Woods Institutions, and the Reconstruction of a Multilateral Order / Louis W. Pauly

3 International Law, Dispute Settlement, and Autonomy / Guy Gensey and Gilbert R. Winham

4 Agricultural Trade and the World Trade Organization / William D. Coleman

5 World Heritage Sites and the Culture of the Commons / Caren Irr

6 Fantasies at the International Whaling Commission: Management, Sustainability, Conservation / Petra Rethmann

7 Globalization, Autonomy, and Global Institutions: Accounting for Accounting / Sarah Eaton and Tony Porter

8 Transnational Law and Privatized Governance / A. Claire Cutler

9 Transnational Actors and Global Social Welfare Policy: The Limits of Private Institutions in Global Governance / Michael Webb and Emily Sinclair

Part 2: Regional Variations

10 Differentiated Autonomy: North America's Model of Transborder Governance / Stephen Clarkson

11 Sovereignty Revisited: European Reconfigurations, Global Challenges, and Implications for Small States / Ulf Hedetoft

12 Subsidiarity and Autonomy in the European Union / Ian Cooper

13 Institutions of Arctic Ordering: The Cases of Greenland and Nunavut / Natalia Loukacheva

14 Conclusion: Institutions, Autonomy, and Complexity / Louis W. Pauly

Notes and Acknowledgments; Works Cited; Contributors; Index