Commons and a New Global Governance

* Book: The Commons and a New Global Governance. Edited by Samuel Cogolati and Jan Wouters. Leuven Global Governance series, Elgar, 2018

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Foreword by Michel Bauwens; afterword from Tine De Moor

Description

"Given the new-found importance of the commons in current political discourse, it has become increasingly necessary to explore the democratic, institutional, and legal implications of the commons for global governance today. This book analyses and explores the ground-breaking model of the commons and its relation to these debates."

Contents

• 1 Introduction: democratic, institutional and legal implications

of the commons for global governance 1 Samuel Cogolati and Jan Wouters

PART I DEMOCRATIC PERSPECTIVES

• 2 What democracy for the global commons? 20

Pierre Dardot

• 3 Federal commons 37

Nicolás Brando and Helder De Schutter

• 4 A (non-)violent revolution? Strategies of civility for the politics

of the common 57 Christiaan Boonen

• 5 Forget Ostrom: from the development commons to the

common as social sovereignty 78 Pierre Sauvêtre

PART II INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES

• 6 Governance of the global commons: a question of supply and

demand, the answer of polycentricism 102 Rutger Hagen and Christophe Crombez

• 7 The rule of law and accountability: exploring trajectories for

democratizing governance of global public goods and global commons 130 Maja Groff and Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen

• 8 Expropriation by definition? Regime complexes, structural

power, and global public goods 160 Thomas R. Eimer

• 9 Knowledge commons and global governance of academic

publishing 186 Maarja Beerkens

PART III LEGAL PERSPECTIVES

• 10 The ecology of international law: towards an international

legal system in tune with nature and community? 212 Ugo Mattei

• 11 From eroding to enabling the commons: the dual movement in

international law 231 Olivier De Schutter

• 12 International law to save the commons 266

Samuel Cogolati and Jan Wouters

• 13 Procedure and substance in international environmental law

and the protection of the global commons 291 Jutta Brunnée

• 14 Conclusion: is the governance of the commons a model for a

new global governance? 322 Martin Deleixhe