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Migration crisis, food crisis, economic crisis the most alarming
tendencies in our contemporary world are related to the
transnational social question. But what role does transnational law
play in this context: Does it exacerbate the asymmetries by
shielding the rich and exploiting the poor? Or is the emerging
regime of international social human rights a promising candidate
for countering the crisis of world society?This book scrutinises
both the potentials and the boundaries of de-coupling the notion of
"social rights" from the nation-state and of transferring it to the
transnational sphere. By drawing on a critical theory of
transnational law, it provides in-depth analyses of the different
sites where the struggle for social rights is at stake, such as the
emerging transnational food regime, the ILO, international
environmental law and the accountability of private actors. It
reveals enforcement structures, discusses judicial doctrine and
relates these aspects to the social and political struggles which
surround the transnationalisation of social rights.
Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative
social policy analysis with international relations, this book
assesses various global social policy actors and compares their
ideas and prescriptions about national health care systems. It
highlights the importance of considering health policies across
multiple scales.
Drawing on international case studies from emerging economies and
developing countries including South Africa, India, Egypt, Morocco,
Jordan, Tunisia, Indonesia, China and Russia, this book examines
the rise, nature and effectiveness of recent developments in social
policy in the Global South. By analysing these new emerging trends,
the book aims to understand how they can contribute to meaningful
change and whether they could offer alternative solutions to the
social, economic and environmental policy challenges facing
low-income countries within a contemporary global context. It pays
particular attention to reforms and innovations relating to the
objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
including the move away from a welfare state, towards a ‘welfare
multitude’, in which new actors, such as civil society
organisations, play an increasingly important role in social
policy.
International Organizations (IOs) are important actors within
global social governance. They provide forums for exchange,
contention and cooperation about social policies. Our knowledge
about the involvement of IOs varies significantly by policy fields,
and we know comparatively little about the specific roles of IOs in
social policies. This volume enhances and systematizes our
understanding of IOs in global social governance. It provides
studies on a variety of social policy fields in which different,
but also the same, IOs operate. The chapters shed light on IO
involvement in a particular social policy field by describing the
population of participating IOs; exploring how a particular global
social policy field is constituted as a whole, and which dominant
IOs set the trends. The contributors also examine the discourse
within, and between, these IOs on the respective social policies.
As such, this first-of-its kind book contributes to research on
social policy and international relations, both in terms of
theoretical substantiation and empirical scope.
Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance seeks to advance our
understanding of the global dimension of social policy by applying
the notion of global social governance on actors, their relations
to each other, and their pathways as well as their footprints of
influence in the specific policy fields of social concern in which
they are active. Focusing on a broad array of individual and
corporate global social policy actors, ranging from internationally
operating intergovernmental organizations to state formations and
NGOs, the contributions to this volume draw a fuller picture of
agency in global social policy than what current accounts provide.
It considers the multiple facets of individual scope and legitimacy
for a particular actor in conjunction with the configuration of
global social governance as characterised by multi-centred and
multi-scaled obstacles as well as diverse forms of collaboration.
The volume studies the contextualised actor's range and power in
designing, shaping, and facilitating various global social
policies. Thus, the contributions discuss the role of particular
(corporate) actors within global social policy structures and
assess the impact of a number of key organizations, states, groups,
and individuals in the governance of global social policy. At the
same time, a variety of social policy fields in which these actors
are involved are addressed, including labour market issues, family
policy, health policy, education policy, migration issues, and
global (re)distribution via various forms of development aid or
remittances.
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