Global Governance in the Age of Neoliberalism: A Marxist Critique

Marina Veličković

Chapter 4 in Research Handbook on Global Governance, 2025, pp 56-78 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Chapter 4 provides a Marxist account of global governance, drawing on historical materialism, Marxist legal theory and ideology critique. First, I set out a materialist account of global governance. I propose that the proliferation of national, transnational and international rules, regulations and institutions reflects the increased juridification of social relations in the era of globalisation. According to this account, global governance is the form that international law takes in neoliberalism. Second, drawing on the commodity form theory of international law, I argue that since violence is inherent in the form of law, it is also inherent in global governance. Finally, I propose that this centrality of violence to the project of global governance is both concealed and neutralised through the discursive work of both international legal scholarship and international legal institutions.

Keywords: Global governance; International law; Marxism; Neoliberalism; Ideology critique; Accumulation by dispossession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789906325
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