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Resolving Transnational Disputes: Commercial Arbitration and Linkages Between Multiple Providers of Governance Services

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New Modes of Governance in the Global System

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Abstract

While scholars of international relations generally assume that the state, as a multifaceted and multipurpose organization, provides all aspects of governance, this chapter is written in accordance with the view that particular governance services can be — and have routinely been — provided by different formal organizations and informal arrangements at all levels of social aggregation. This view rests on the assumption that governance is best understood if it is broken down into its constituent service activities, comprising three broad realms: norm creation, implementation of rules and the adjudication of conflicts. Accordingly, ‘governance entails the provision of a wide range of services [...1 each of which can be provided by individuals or organizations specializing in the production or provision of that particular service’ (McGinnis, 1999a: 54).

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Lehmkuhl, D. (2006). Resolving Transnational Disputes: Commercial Arbitration and Linkages Between Multiple Providers of Governance Services. In: Koenig-Archibugi, M., Zürn, M. (eds) New Modes of Governance in the Global System. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372887_5

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