Review: Asia: Global Public Policy
| Author | Daryl Copeland |
| Published date | 01 September 1998 |
| Date | 01 September 1998 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070209805300328 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
from
general
membership
benefits
Reinicke
understands
that
global-
and
eligibility
for
help
from
interna-
ization,
a
double-edged
process
in
tional
financial
institutions,
incen-
which
a
critical
range
of
activities
tives
may
be
more
effective
when
are
transferred
to
a
world
scale,
has
they
are
offered in
less
highly
publi-
emerged
as
the
defining
historical
cized
forms,
outside
organizational
phenomenon
of
our
times, trans-
frameworks.
United
Nations
sanc-
forming
structures
and
condition-
tions
can
also
complicate
efforts
to
ing
outcomes
across
a
wide
range
of
devise
an
effective
mixed
strategy
of
endeavour.
He
acknowledges
that
carrots
and
sticks.'
globalization
is
profoundly
corpo-
rate
in
orientation,
subverting
states
Margaret
Doxey/Trent
University
and
challenging
governments
world-wide.
Driven
in
large
part
by
GLOBAL
PUBLIC
POLICY changes
in
the
nature
and
workings
Governing
without
government?
of
the
world
economy,
globalization
Wolfgang
H.
Reinicke
has
rendered
governing
infinitely
Washington
DC:
Brookings
Institution
more
difficult.
His
solution?
Go
Press,
1998,
xi,
307pp,
US$42.50
global
with
governance.
cloth,
US$18.95
paper
The
way
Reinicke
probes
for
the
distinction
between
globalization
Global
Public
Policy
will
be
inter-
and
interdependence is
particularly
preted
by
some
as
an
elaborate
useful,
as
his
discussion
of
internal
apologia
for
the status quo.
It
is,
versus
external
sovereignty,
and
his
nonetheless,
an
impressive
piece
of
exploration
of
the
prospects
for
and
scholarship,
featuring
carefully
effects
of
intervention.
A
major
crafted
theoretical constructs and theme
in
the
book
is
the
growing
some
of
the
more
concise
and
disconnect
between
the
scope
and
thoughtful
analysis
of
globalization
pace
of
globalization
and
the
capaci-
yet
to
appear.
If
turgid
and
dense
in
ty
of
political
and
regulatory
struc-
places
-
perhaps
unavoidable
in
the
tures
and
norms
to
keep
abreast.
circumstances
-the
basic
lines
of
With
the
effectiveness
and
credibili-
argument
are
clearly expressed
and
ty
of
institutions
at
all
levels
increas-
well-documented.
In
demonstrating
ingly
open
to
question,
their
legiti-
that
the
implications
of
globaliza-
macy
is
at
risk.
This
carries
implica-
tion
extend beyond the
economic,
tions
ultimately
for
the stability
of
into
matters
of
law,
criminality,
and
the
international
system,
and
that,
national security,
Reinicke
has
perhaps
especially
for
someone
with
helped
widen
the
scope
of
the
dis-
Reinicke's
World
Bank
sensibility,
is
cussion
and
debate,
clearly
problematic.
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JOURNAL
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1998
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