Theoretical-Analytical Framework: Contested Ideas in Global Governance

Abstract

This chapter develops the theoretical-analytical lenses that will guide the empirical analysis. In a Cognitivist approach to global governance analysis, it is important to make the reader aware that theoretical approaches to political science analysis are always embedded in specific policy contexts:

• “There is no view from nowhere. All theories and concepts are bounded by time and place; they draw their relevance from the temporal sequences and particular contexts in which they are developed and deployed” (Hurrell 2011:149).