Collaborative Governance and International Economic Relations

Download or read book Collaborative Governance and International Economic Relations written by Kevin Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article advances an argument that the joint partners comprising global economic governance regimes have a shared and potentially magnified responsibility to respect the basic interests of the global public when laying down their own systems of ground rules that facilitate their pursuit of more limited instrumental aims such as promoting the financial objectives of their own members' elites. The international rule of law, properly understood, stands as a check on international economic relations in the sense that people, organizations, and institutions that structure collaborative schemes have basic obligations not to establish unjust ground rules in the first place. The ground rules that are in play in transnational economic governance regimes may be unjust not only in the sense that they institute unfair procedures but also in the sense that they create or perpetuate unfair apportionments of resources, privileges, and goods.In this way, I conclude, collaborative governance is constrained by the dictates of distributive as well as procedural justice.