The Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) is pleased to announce the publication of the 2015 Special Issue of the the UK’s leading International Relations journal - the Review of International Studies - on the theme:

THE POLITICS OF NUMBERS: THE NORMATIVE AGENDAS OF GLOBAL BENCHMARKING

Edited by André Broome (University of Warwick) & Joel Quirk (University of the Witwatersrand), the Special Issue was produced through research for the Global Benchmarking Project within CSGR.

The 197-page Special Issue contains an introduction to the power of global benchmarking and 9 original research articles, including articles by Warwick researchers André Broome, Alexandra Homolar, Sharifah Sekalala, and James Harrison in collaboration with other leading scholars in the field.

Topics examined in the Issue include the rise of global benchmarking as a mode of transnational governance, and specifically in the areas of human security, disaster risk reduction, global supply chains, transnational activism, human rights, global development goals, climate change, and World Bank country benchmarks for African economies.

For further information see: www.warwick.ac.uk/globalbenchmarking/publications.

Download the full issue here: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=RIS&volumeId=41&seriesId=0&issueId=05

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