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Editorial StatementThis booklet sets out the editorial guidelines for Global Policy, an innovativeand interdisciplinary journal. It first outlines the broad but distinctive focusof ‘global policy’. Second, it explains the format and editorial philosophy ofthe Journal. Third, it considers the aims and outcomes of the Journal. Thefinal section outlines the structure of the Editorial Board.
GLOBALLYRELEVANT RISKSAND COLLECTIVEACTION PROBLEMS
INTERNATIONALPOLICYCOORDINATION
a) NORMATIVETHEORIES OFGLOBALGOVERNANCE ANDITS REFORMb) COMPETINGDISCOURSES OFGLOBALGOVERNANCE
INNOVATIONS INGLOBALGOVERNANCE
THE SHIFT FROMUNIPOLAR TOMULTIPOLARGOVERNANCE
THE SHIFT FROMNATIONAL LEVELTO BLOC LEVEL
1 2 3
4 5 6
Policy levels (nation-states, regional blocs and global governance)
Global risks and challenges
Figure 1: The six main components of global policy
01.The Journal's focus:What is global policy?The field of global policy focuses on the globalas a process (or set of processes) which createstranscontinental or interregional flows andnetworks of activity and interaction, and thenew framework of multi-level policymaking bypublic and private actors, which involves andtranscends national, international and trans-national policy regimes.
We define global policy as having six main foci,whose interrelationships are shown in Figure 1on the facing page.
1. Globally relevant risks and collective actionproblems of different kinds (such as commonpool resource problems) have becomeincreasingly important as a result of theintensification of globalization over the lastfive decades. In a densely interconnected world,the fortunes of multiple countries andsometimes all countries are linked andinterdependent. Effective policy solutionsoften require concerted and coordinated actionby governments and nation-states to tacklecommon problems. For academic research toengage effectively with these policy issues andproblems, it needs to increase the scale,ambition and purpose-fulness of its analysesand comparisons.
2. International policy coordination is alsoproceeding in a wide range of areas which donot fit into the category above. For instance,
action to promote equal rights and inter-national standards is developing in manydifferent kinds of policy spheres for a numberof reasons, including the increasing inter-connectedness of public opinion and economicforces – as when companies and consumersseek assurance that child labour or workers’health are being appropriately regulated innewly industrializing economies. This kind ofglobal pooling of policy regimes has little to dowith conventional international relations andrequires innovative research to address it.
3. Normative theories of global governance areundergoing rapid development and change, forinstance, in thinking about the interplaybetween democracies, markets, networks andhierarchies. The institutions, informationalpolitics and processes of modern policymakingin the first decades of the twenty-first centurywill be influenced by the evolution of theseethical and imaginative debates. In addition,emerging powers on the global stage (such asBrazil, Russia, India and China) have oftendifferent and competing conceptions of whatconstitutes global order and relevant policies.Thus an opening has been created for newconcepts, themes and theories in theconsideration of global governance.
The current policy environment has also seen aseries of strong changes in conventional‘domestic’ policymaking, frequently going beyonda single country focus in three main ways:
4. A change from national level to ‘bloc’ levelpolicymaking is taking place in two main areas.First, in the European Union a greatexperiment in ‘joining up’ national policyapproaches is under way, which has alreadyintroduced important changes in how theUnion’s 25 component member states makepublic policies across many sectors. Second, wehave seen the development of complexpatterns or regionalism, often involving greatereconomic policy integration, in North andSouth America, the Asia-Pacific area and sub-Saharan Africa. These patterns have emergedpartly as responses to globalization, and partlyas attempts to shape it.
5. A transition from single polar to multi-polargovernance is under way. Innovative ideas inpublic policy for the past two decades havebeen dominated by relatively similar advancedindustrial economies. But the next half-centurywill see several regional blocs emerging, basedaround the EU, the USA, China, India andLatin America, and along with them multiplepoles of advanced policy innovation. Each ofthe different regional blocs will evolvedifferent policy approaches and styles, someof which are hard to anticipate but which arelikely to have important effects. Global Policyis a key forum for understanding andcapturing the new variations quickly as theyemerge.
6. Innovations in global governance in recentdecades have sought to address emergingglobal risks and challenges. They often markattempts to overcome weak or fragmentedforms of bilateral and multilateral cooperation.
Specifically, these include: different forms ofintergovernmental arrangements – e.g. theWorld Bank, IMF and WTO – embodyingvarious levels of legalisation, types ofinstruments utilised and responsiveness tostakeholders; an increasing number of publicagencies – e.g. central bankers – maintaininglinks with similar agencies in other countries andthus, forming transgovernmental networks forthe management of various global issues; diversebusiness actors – i.e. firms, their associations andorganisations such as international chambers ofcommerce – establishing their own transnat-ional regulatory mechanisms to manage issuesof common concern; and public bodies, businessactors and NGOs collaborating on a range ofdevelopmental issues in order to provide novelapproaches to social problems through multi-stakeholders networks.
In sum, modern policymaking is shaped in farbroader ways than in previous eras by a widerrange of actors. In addition to formal govern-mental bodies, private corporations, mediacompanies and networks, non-governmentalorganizations, international and regional blocorganizations, professions and interest groupsare all involved in decisive ways. The pluralism ofactors does not imply an equivalence of power.On the contrary, contemporary interactions andattempts at governance take place in the contextof asymmetrical interdependence, with largediscrepancies in wealth, other material andnonmaterial resources, and status among coun-tries. Asymmetrical interdependence impliesunequal power. How different actors engage,interrelate and impact upon one another isalso a focus of Global Policy.
Global Policy has a multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary and international outlook that iscommitted to developing the accuracy, policyimplications and policy relevance of academicresearch. It does not privilege a particularethnocentric approach but reflects a multi-plicity of approaches that are indicative of theemergence of a global system of multipolargovernance and policymaking.
The editors’ approach to selecting material is:
Committed to advancing the study of globalpolicy and the politics in which it is embedded;
Open to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinarycontributions;
Reflexive in its consideration of diversepolitical discourses on global problems;
Engaged in respect of its contribution to thepublic debate and understanding of urgentglobal policy issues and;
Serious in its commitment to the publicationof only world class academic scholarship andthe work of key public and private figures orauthorities.
The scope of Global Policy’s content can bespecified by a number of criteria. These aresummarised as follows:
02.Editorial philosophy andformat
The editors are committed to developing boththe highest standards of scholarship andevidence based reasoning by authors, with thescholarly articles subject to rigorous peer review.We are at the same time committed to theeffective communication of research in themost accessible and professional fashion. Weuse a set of editorial conventions that do notcompromise on accuracy and the properexplanation of methods, but that do system-atically prioritise readers’ interests in theexcellent presentation of data and completeclarity of exposition. We seek to engagemeaningfully with the widest range of readers
and contributors both in the global publicpolicy research fields and in majorgovernments, international organizations,central banks, industries and NGOs dealingwith global policy issues. In order to connectworld-class research with clear links to thediverse policy making community, Global Policycontains four key types of material:
Research Articles (8000 words) report andanalyse new research, theory, interpretationsand scholarly controversy.
Survey Articles (4000 words) map the stateof knowledge or policy context of particularissues. They also analyse externaldevelopments and innovations in areas thathave a tangible impact on the policyenvironment.
Practitioners’ Commentaries (1500 words)are crisp and focused articles by policy makerson a practical aspect of global policy change.
Reviews and Review Essays keep readers fullyup to date with existing literature in the field
The Journal will commission, from time totime, extensive surveys of policy relevant dataavailable. Responses to articles, interviews anddebates on critical issues will also be included.
The locus for most of the accepted work lies ineconomics, global politics, government,international law, international relations,international political economy, but equallyGlobal Policy is permeable to and engaged witha much wider range of disciplines. The six focioutlined in Section 01 also show that theJournal covers a wide range of topics, therebybuilding knowledge and understanding of themany different processes contributing to thedefinition and evolution of global policyproblems and policy-making.
The innovative content of Global Policy iscomplemented by a reader friendly and access-ible physical format that is attractive to bothscholars and practitioners. The format is dualcolumn, with full colour printing, highresolution images and professionally laid outcharts and diagrams. There is a strong overallemphasis on design in every issue.
Among other topics, the Journal includes:
Main articles and commentaries on:
• Environment, energy, security and climate change• Global trade, finance and regulation• Intellectual property rights• Global social policy, inequality and poverty• Global healthy policy• Human rights regimes• Global migration, cultural transformations and communications• Global public goods provision• Global institutional design
Survey articles on:
• Nanotechnology• Bioethics• Biodiversity• Nuclear non-proliferation• UN reform• Global arms trade• International drugs trade• Outer space• Antarctica• High-seas piracy• International taxation
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03.Aims andoutcomesThe first aim of the Journal is to offer asystematic analysis of the global policy themesset out in the first section of this booklet,generating an integrated view of an area ofresearch that is now rapidly expanding andchanging. Global Policy will be invaluable tothose working in economics, global politics,government, international law, internationalrelations, international political economy, andmany other disciplines that contribute todeveloping global policy.
The second aim is the production of solid andcredible research that will have an impact onsenior policymakers, private and publiccorporations, nongovernmental organisationsand international bodies. The Journal’s out-put is also designed to inform policymakersand academics about notable developmentsand changes in global policy areas.
The third aim of Global Policy is to focus onresearch that centres on emerging regionalpoles of policy innovation and governancediscourse, which will be of great interest toinfluential policymakers around the world.
The overall objective of the Journal is tostimulate ‘deep’ policy learning, relevant forthe academy and for governments and keynon-governmental players. The Journal seeksto go beyond current forms of episodic anddiscontinuous comparative research and tohelp transcend limited and superficial forms of‘policy transfer’ and cross-national learning.
Moreover, by developing a set of well-definedand documented sectoral case studies, theGlobal Policy provides resources for profess-ional training with senior policymakers and inthe teaching of public policy. These casestudies are problem |based and generalisable.We are also interested in methodologicaladvances that go beyond methodologicalnationalism and that make deep policylearning possible within the complex multi-polar system that is emerging.
"Global Policy provides timely analysis of the important global debates of our time. Those who followworld affairs will not want to miss it."George SorosChairman of Soros Fund Management, LLC and founder of The Open Society Institute
"The global economic crisis has shown once again why even the largest nations need global cooperationto formulate policy. The world is ready for Global Policy."Kemal DervisVice President and Director of Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institute
I would like to commend you for taking this important initiative. The world badly needs innovativesolutions, involving both the public and private sector, to a wide range of pressing global challenges. Tothat end, a journal that brings together the world of academics and practitioners is most welcome.Javier SolanaHigh Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of theEuropean Union
The need for a high-quality, multi-disciplinary journal focusing on problems of global policy has neverbeen greater. This new journal promises to fill a very important lacuna in our intellectual landscape.Dani RodrikProfessor of International Political Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
“'If only the world knew what people in the world know!' Our collective inability to put together what weknow endangers our finances, our climate, and our health. Global Policy will not provide a blueprint forglobal governance, but it is an important step toward coherent thinking with a global perspective."Robert KeohaneProfessor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
"I and many other observers see the world changing dramatically around us - from technology, fromgeopolitics, from economic and financial turbulence, from the rise of the rest. We figure the best globalthinking needs to be joined up across fields. Yet others might still disagree on both hypotheses.Regardless, Global Policy is the right journal for our times, and what will emerge from its pages willinform debate of global significance.Danny QuahProfessor of Economics, London School of Economics
"Global Policy is an exciting new journal and it promises to provide a vital forum for the world's bestminds to reflect on challenges and opportunities in our global age."John IkenberryAlbert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
"Global Policy promises to set the standard for serious, policy-relevant thinking on global issues."Anne-Marie SlaughterBert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University.
"I think that this initiative gives a fresh, helpful and innovative way of looking at the current globalworld. Bringing together the analysis of academics and the expertise of practitioners is needed todaymore than ever."Narciss SerraPresident, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
The Journal’s General Editors are ProfessorDavid Held and Professor Patrick Dunleavy.They are supported by the Executive Editor, DrEva-Maria Nag and the Reviews Editor, Dr JillStuart. The Global Policy team also includes theJournal Manager, Kat Wall and the Web andSocial Media Manager, Tom Kirk.
The Journal's Editorial Board comprises adistinguished panel of academics that act asreferees for the review process, and have keypolicy, overview and development roles.
The Editorial Board are supported by anAdvisory Board made up of leading inter-national academic figures. Advisory Boardmembers help identify key areas of researchwhere the Journal can publish major newfindings, solicit contributions from researchersand practitioners, and promote Global Policywherever possible.
There is also a Practitioners’ Advisory Boardmade up of experts from around the world whoensure the focus remains on pressing andrelevant global issues.
Contact details
Global Policy,London School of Economics,Houghton Street,London,WC2A 2AE,United Kingdom
Email (editorial office):[email protected]
Email (reviews):[email protected]
Telephone +44 (0)207 955 7013
Access to all articles from current and previousissues of Global Policy is available online. Thewebsite hosts a wide range of online exclusives,columns and regular blogs, as well as videos ofinterviews and lectures with board members,authors and other contributors. It alsocontains all submission and subscriptioninformation.
www.globalpolicyjournal.com
04.Editorial staff and boardmembersThe Journal’s General Editors are ProfessorDavid Held and Professor Patrick Dunleavy.They are supported by the Executive Editor, Dr Eva-Maria Nag, the Journal Manager, Louise Haysey, and the Online Manager, Tom Kirk.
The Journal’s Editorial Board comprises a distinguished panel of academics that act as referees for the review process, and have key policy, overview and development roles.
The Editorial Board are supported by an Advisory Board made up of leading international academic figures. Advisory Board members help identify key areas of research where the Journal can publish major new findings, solicit contributions from researchers and practitioners, and promote Global Policy wherever possible.
There is also a Practitioners’ Advisory Board made up of experts from around the world who ensure the focus remains on pressing and relevant global issues.
Access to all articles from current and previousissues of Global Policy is available online(www.globalpolicyjournal.com). The website hosts a wide range of online exclusives,columns and regular blogs, as well as videos ofinterviews and lectures with board members,authors and other contributors. It also contains all submission and subscription information.
Contact Details
Global Policy,School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University,The Al-Qasimi Building,Elvet Hill Road,Durham,DH1 3TU,UK
Email (editorial office):[email protected]
Email (online inquiries):[email protected]
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