Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics This book examines the problem of social and environmental regulation, and the protection of human rights under the conditions of globalization. With detailed case studies on the clothing industry, forestry and corporate responsibility, Ronnie Lipschutz analyzes both the issues and problems that have given rise to various movements and campaigns, and the challenges these movements now face. He critically evaluates the effectiveness of such non-governmental organizations and examines the theoretical implications of these new forms of social regulation for politics, citizenship and the state. Lipschutz concludes that only through the creation of substantive democratic polities can global social problems be addressed. This major new work provides expert answers and poses tough new questions for the global community. It will be essential reading for students, researchers and activists studying globalization, civil society, citizenship and human rights. Ronnie D.Lipschutz is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. James K.Rowe is a Ph.D. candidate in Politics at UC-Santa Cruz. RIPE series in global political economy Series editors: Louise Amoore University of Newcastle, UK Randall Germain Carleton University, Canada Rorden Wilkinson University of Manchester, UK and Wellesley College, USA Formerly edited by Otto Holman (University of Amsterdam), Marianne Marchand (Universidad de las Américas-Puebla), Henk Overbeek (Free University, Amsterdam) and Marianne Franklin (University of Amsterdam) The RIPE series editorial board are: Mathias Albert Bielefeld University, Germany Mark Beeson University of Queensland, Australia A.Claire Cutler University of Victoria, Canada Marianne Franklin University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Stephen Gill York University, Canada Jeffrey Hart Indiana University, USA Eric Helleiner Trent University, Canada Otto Holman University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Marianne H.Marchand Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, Mexico Craig N.Murphy Wellesley College, USA Robert O’Brien McMaster University, Canada Henk Overbeek Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands Anthony Payne University of Sheffield, UK V.Spike Peterson University of Arizona, USA. This series, published in association with the Review of International Political Economy, provides a forum for current debates in international political economy. The series aims to cover all the central topics in IPE and to present innovative analyses of emerging topics. The titles in the series seek to transcend a state-centred discourse and focus on three broad themes: • the nature of the forces driving globalisation forward • resistance to globalisation • the transformation of the world order. The series comprises two strands: The RIPE Series in Global Political Economy aims to address the needs of students and teachers, and the titles will be published in hardback and paperback. Titles include Transnational Classes and International Relations Kees van der Fiji Gender and Global Restructuring Sightings, Sites and Resistances Edited by Marianne H.Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan Global Political Economy Contemporary Theories Edited by Ronen Palan Ideologies of Globalization Contending Visions of a New World Order Mark Rupert The Clash within Civilisations Coming to Terms with Cultural Conflicts Dieter Senghaas Global Unions? Theory and Strategies of Organized Labour in the Global Political Economy Edited by Jeffrey Harrod and Robert O’Brien Political Economy of a Plural World Critical Reflections on Power, Morals and Civilizations Robert Cox with Michael Schechter A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies V.Spike Peterson Contesting Globalization Space and Place in the World Economy André C.Drainville Global Institutions and Development Framing the World? Edited by Morten Bøås and Desmond McNeill Global Institutions, Marginalization, and Development Craig N.Murphy Critical Theories, International Relations and “the Anti-Globalisation Movement” The Politics of Global Resistance Edited by Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca Globalization, Governmentality, and Global Politics Regulation for the Rest of Us? Ronnie D.Lipschutz with James K.Rowe Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy is a forum for innovative new research intended for a high-level specialist readership, and the titles will be available in hardback only. Titles include: 1 Globalization and Governance* Edited by Aseem Prakash and Jeffrey A.Hart 2 Nation-States and Money The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies Edited by Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner 3 The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights The New Enclosures? Christopher May 4 Integrating Central Europe EU expansion and Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic Otto Holman 5 Capitalist Restructuring, Globalisation and the Third Way Lessons from the Swedish Model J.Magnus Ryner 6 Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration Bastiaan van Apeldoorn 7 World Financial Orders An Historical International Political Economy Paul Langley 8 The Changing Politics of Finance in Korea and Thailand From Deregulation to Debacle Xiaoke Zhang 9 Anti-Immigrantism in Western Democracies Statecraft, Desire and the Politics of Exclusion Roxanne Lynn Doty 10 The Political Economy of European Employment European Integration and the Transnationalization of the (Un)Employment Question Edited by Henk Overbeek * Also available in paperback 11 Rethinking Global Political Economy Emerging Issues, Unfolding Odysseys Edited by Mary Ann Tétreault, Robert A.Denemark, Kenneth P.Thomas and Kurt Burch 12 Rediscovering International Relations Theory Matthew Davies and Michael Niemann 13 International Trade and Developing Countries Bargaining Coalitions in the GATT & WTO Amrita Narlikar 14 The Southern Cone Model The Political Economy of Regional Capitalist Development in Latin America Nicola Phillips 15 The Idea of Global Civil Society Politics and Ethics of a Globalizing Era Edited by Randall D.Germain and Michael Kenny 16 Governing Financial Globalization International Political Economy and Multi-Level Governance Edited by Andrew Baker, David Hudson and Richard Woodward 17 Resisting Intellectual Property Debora J.Halbert Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics Regulation for the rest of us? Ronnie D.Lipschutz with James K.Rowe LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2005 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX 14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10010 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/.” © 2005 Ronnie D.Lipschutz with James K.Rowe All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Lipschutz, Ronnie D. Globalization, governmentality and global politics: regulation for the rest of us?/Ronnie D.Lipschutz, with James K.Rowe p.cm.—(RIPE series in global political economy) “Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.” Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Globalization. 2. Globalization-Social aspects. 3. Social responsibility of business. 4. International business enterprises-Social aspects. 5. Foreign trade regulation. 6. International economic relations. I. Rowe, James K. II. Title. III. Series: Routledge/RIPE series in global political economy. RIPE series in global political economy. JZ1318.L57 2005 303.48′2–dc22 2005000632 ISBN 0-203-79926-7 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-415-70159-7 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-70160-0 (pbk) To the memory of John Twomey (1965–2003) Le premier qui, ayant enclos un terrain, s’avisa de dire: Ceci est à moi, et trouva des gens assez simples pour le croire, fut le vrai fondateur de la société civile. Que de crimes, de guerres, de meurtres, que de misères et d’horreurs n’eût point épargnés au genre humain celui qui, arrachant les pieux ou comblant le fossé, eût crié à ses semblables: Gardez-vous d’écouter cet imposteur; vous êtes perdus, si vous oubliez que les fruits sont à tous, et que la terre n’est à personne. (The first Man, who, after enclosing a Piece of Ground, took it into his Head to say, This is mine, and found People simple enough to believe him, was the true Founder of civil Society. How many Crimes, how many Wars, how many Murders, how many Misfortunes and Horrors, would that Man have saved the Human Species, who pulling up the Stakes or filling up the Ditches should have cried to his Fellows: Be sure not to listen to this Impostor; you are lost, if you forget that the Fruits of the Earth belong equally to us all, and the Earth itself to nobody!) Jean Jacques Rousseau (1754)1 Discours sur l’Origine et le Fondement de l’Inégalité Parmi les Hommes, “Among Mankind—Second Part,” p. 97, at: http://www.geocities.com/paris/chateau/6110/rousseau10.htm (accessed 20 August 2004).