Table of Contents
Editor's Foreword xi
Foreword xxiii
1 What does 'sustainable global governance' entail? 1
Second order sustainability 5
Dealing with diversity 7
The dispute over justice 11
Outlawing war 15
The tasks 19
2 How the world cannot be governed 23
Imperial government and hegemony - built-in failure 24
The 'league of democracies': the 'civilizing mission' in new garb 31
The world republic - the cosmopolitan dream (nightmare) 36
Global governance 43
Summary 52
3 Dealing with diversity 54
Cultural integration, cultural fragmentation 57
The political significance of the cultural factor 61
Western cultural dominance as a historical fact and a problem 63
The cultural 'principle of uncertainty' 70
Humility and self-confidence 72
Four encounters outside one's own borders 77
Ways and means 82
Western preparation: getting ready for diversity 83
Conclusions 86
4 The dispute over justice 87
Introduction 87
Concepts of the substance of justice 88
The procedural way out 92
Differences between 'internal' and 'external' 93
Problems of justice driven by globalization 96
The relationship between distributive and procedural justice at the international level 100
Unsolved problems of justice in international relations 102
Conclusions 110
5 Outlawing war 112
War as an instrument of world governance? 113
Preventing war through deterrence 116
Deterrence of war through imperial hegemony 119
The international organization 121
Security communities 126
Superpower relations: the forthcoming shift in power 129
The concert of powers 132
Arms control and disarmament 136
Establishment of multilateral structures: East Asia,Central Asia, and Maghreb 141
Damage containment: Africa, Afghanistan 143
Conflict management and resolution: South Asia and the Middle East 146
Peace enforcement and humanitarian intervention: who decides and under what circumstances? 150
Conclusions 154
6 Power, the market, morality and the law 155
The problem of control 155
Means of control 157
Power 157
The market 160
Morality 165
The law 168
The law and power 170
The law and morality 174
The law and the market 178
The flexibility of the law 180
International law 181
Power, the world market, the 'clash of cultures' and international law 185
International law and international power relationships 185
International law und the world market 187
International law and morality 190
The neoconservative attack 192
Who makes international law? 194
Who enforces the law? 201
Conclusions 205
7 Who does what? Players and institutions in sustainable world governance 206
The United Nations: The Security Council 209
The United Nations: The General Assembly 213
Global justice in decisions: universal democracy and the United Nations 217
The Secretary-General and Article 99 219
International regimes 221
Regime coordination 223
Regional organizations 225
Courts of justice and quasi-judicial proceedings 228
The superpowers 233
Non-governmental organizations 237
Panels of experts 243
Commecial enterprise 244
Summary 246
8 No sustainability is possible without active civil society 249
Glossary - list of abbreviations 254
Reference literature 258
