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Global Governance in QuestionEmpire, Class and the New Common Sense in Managing North-South Relations\nAuthor(s): Susanne Soederberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pluto Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Pluto Press\nISBN-13: 9780745320694, 978-0745320694\nSynopsis\nLike many buzzwords, 'global governance' is as poorly understood as it is popular. In contrast to most mainstream accounts, this book examines global economic governance as an integral moment of contemporary capitalism, presenting a critical insight into its real nature and the interests that it serves. \n\nThis book begins by asking what has not been discussed in the mainstream debates and why. Drawing on a Marxist perspective, Susanne Soederberg explores neglected issues including transnational debt and the increasingly coercive nature of US aid to so-called failed states'. \n\nShe argues that mainstream understandings fail to engage with the wider contradictions that characterise global capitalism. In consequence, there .