All posts by Christopher May

Global Corporations are Institutions of Global Governance

Christopher May | May 18, 2015

In most accounts of global governance, where corporations are included they are seen as either subject to various international organisations’ regulatory impact or are identified as having (benign or malign) influence over agenda setting around the scope and practices of global regulation. [...]

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The rule of law is the common sense of global politics, and why political economists might be interested

Christopher May | March 23, 2015

The rule of law is often presented as preferable to the rule of men or the rule of force, and in the last couple of decades has become a central part of the common sense of global politics; an unquestioned statement about the world in which we live. To understand its appeal we need to [...]

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