CONTEMPORARY

GL OBAL
GOVERNANCE
by: MAYBEL NIEVA & CHRISTIAN KYLE PANTALAN
 LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Before we AT THE END OF THE LESSON THE STUDENT

SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

START Define what is global governance

Identify the roles and functions of global governance and;

Determine the challenges of global governance in 21st

Century
IN T RODU CTI O N

How is the world governed

in the absence of
a world government?
 International Agreements
are treaties signed by a number of states that establish
global rules of conduct. States that break these rules are

called rogue states (North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria)

International Law
is the collection of rules and regulations that define the
rights and obligations of states
 WHA T
DO E S IT
M E AN?
 DEFI N ING
Global Governance:

Global Governance refers to the various

intersecting processes that create
WORLD ORDER.

 REM EMBER:

“It is the sum of laws, norms, policies, and

institutions that define, constitute, and mediate
relations between citizens, societies, markets,
and states in the international system–the
wielders and objects of the exercise of
international public power.”
THERE IS NO GLOBAL GOVERMENT

 According to Thakur & Weiss (2015) further explain that

“There is no government for the world. Yet, on any given day,
mail is delivered across borders; people travel from one
country to another via a variety of transport modes; goods and
services are freighted across land, air, sea, and cyberspace;
and a whole range of other cross-border activities take place
in reasonable expectation of safety and security for the people,
groups, firms, and governments involved. Disruptions and
threats are rare.

 TREATIES
AND
SOURCES ORGANIZATIONS

of INTERNATIONAL

Global
NGO’S

Governance POWERFUL
TRANSNATIONAL
CORPORATIONS

 International
Organizations
I O 'S
often refers to international
intergovernmental organizations
or group that are primally made-
up of member-states.
Problems afflicting POVERTY
ORGANIZED CRIME &

today which are

ORGANIZATIONS

which increasingly
transnational in ENVIRONMENTAL
ISSUES
PANDEMICS

nature- those that

cannot be solved at
the National level ECONOMIC CRISIS
CLIMATE CHANGE

or State to state
negotiations.
 HIST O R Y
of
United Nations
As World War II was about to end in 1945, nations
were in ruins, and the world wanted peace.
Representatives of 50 countries gathered at the United
Nations Conference on International Organization in
San Francisco, California from 25 April to 26 June
1945. For the next two months, they proceeded to
draft and then sign the UN Charter, which created a
new international organization, the United Nations,
which, it was hoped, would prevent another world war
like the one they had just lived through.

 Who created UN
and why?
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt
met with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in
Tehran, Iran, in November 1943, he
proposed an international organization
comprising an assembly of all member
states and a 10-member executive
committee to discuss social and economic
issues.

WHITEBOA R D PA G E


The work of the

MAINTAIN
PROTECT HUMAN
INTERNATIONAL PEACE
RIGHTS
AND SECURITY.

United Nations

covers five main

areas
SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE
DELIVER
DEVELOPMENT AND
HUMANITARIAN AID.
CLIMATE ACTION.

"You can't fully achieve one

without achieving all of them"

UPHOLD
INTERNATIONAL LAW.

 The United Nations;

As a Global Governance Actor
To examine the essential/Ideational
role of UN in 21st century

Managing Institutionalizing
Knowledge Ideas

Developing Formulating Every problem has

Addressing a
Norms Recommendations several global
problem institutions working on
that goes Helps to solidity A policy actor
significant aspects of
solutions.
beyond new form of
because of its
the capacity behavior, often
through summit, liability to convene
of the state.
conferences, and consult.
and
international
panels and
commissions.
U NI T ED N A T IO N S
Main Organs

1. General Assembly
2. Security Council
3. Economic and Social Council
4. Trustees Council
5. International Court of Justice
6. The Secretariat
 The main deliberative,
policymaking and representative
organ of the UN

All 193 Member States of the UN

are represented in the General
Assembly, making it the only UN
body with universal
representation.
The General Assembly, each year,
elects a GA President to serve a
one-year term of office.

General Assembly
Enrique A. Manalo
-Permanent Representative of the Philippines to
the United Nations.
 Considered as the most powerful
organ

Has primary responsibility, under

the UN Charter, for the
maintenance of international
peace and security.

The Security Council takes the

lead in determining the existence
of a threat to the peace or act of
aggression.

It has 15 Members (5 permanent

and 10 non-permanent

Security Council
members). Each Member has one
vote.
5 permanent M E M B E R S with veto power

United Kingdom
RUSSIAN of Great Britain United States
CHINA FRANCE FEDERATION and Northern of America.
Ireland

WHY ARE THERE 5 PERMANENT MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL?

The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (also known as the
Permanent Five, Big Five, or P5) are the five sovereign states to whom the UN Charter of
1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council: China, France, USSR, the
United Kingdom, and the United States.
 The principal body for coordination,
policy review, policy dialogue and
recommendations on economic,
social and environmental issues, as
well as implementation of
internationally agreed development
goals.

It has 54 Members, elected by

the General Assembly for
overlapping three-year terms.

It is the United Nations’ central

Economic and Social platform for reflection, debate,

and innovative thinking on

Council sustainable development.

 Established in 1945 by the UN

Charter, under Chapter XIII,

Established to help ensure that

trust territories were administered
in the best interests of their
inhabitants and of international
peace and security.

Authorized to examine and discuss

reports from the Administering
Authority on the political, economic,
social and educational advancement of

Trusteeship Council
the peoples of Trust Territories and, in
consultation with the Administering
Authority, to examine petitions from and

undertake.
 The principal judicial organ of
United Nation.

The Court’s role is to settle, in

accordance with international law,
legal disputes submitted to it by
States and to give advisory
opinions on legal questions
referred to it by authorized United
Nations organs and specialized
agencies.

International Court Its seat is at the Peace Palace in

the Hague (Netherlands).
of Justice

 Did you know that Filipinos played a

significant role in the creation of human
rights arbitration rules in the United
Nations?
In the late 1960s, the diplomat Salvador P.
Lopez was chairman of the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights. Lopez and
other Filipinos helped design the system
whereby any citizen of any state may petition
the UN to look into human rights violations in a
country. That system exists until today. Human
rights, therefore, are not foreign impositions.
They are part of our national heritage.
 Consist of 10 thousands of international
UN staff members who carry out the
day-to-day work of the UN as mandated
by the General Assembly and the
Organization's other principal bodies

The Secretary-General is Chief

Administrative Officer of the
Organization, appointed by the General
Assembly on the recommendation of the
Security Council for a five-year,
renewable term.

The Secretary-General is also a symbol of

Secretariat the Organization's ideals, and an advocate

for all the world's peoples, especially the
poor and vulnerable.
The 9th General
Secretary
Took office on January
1,2017
A former United Nations
High Commissioner for
Refugees Antonio Guterres
 G ENERAL I Z A T I ON
Global governance is such a complex issue that one can actually teach an entire course
in itself. This lesson has focused on the IOs and the United Nations in particular.
International organizations are highlighted because they are the most visible symbols of
global governance. The UN, in particular is the closest to a world government. What is
important to remember is that international institutions like the UN are always in a
precarious position.
On the one hand, they are groups of sovereign states. On the other, they are the
organizations with their own rationalities and agendas. It is this tension that will continue
to inform the evolution of these organizations.
However, note there are many institutions, groups, and ideas that hold international and
global politics together. In your own time, You may want to explore these topics on your
own.
 Advantages and Disadvantages of Global Governance
ADVANTAGES
Reducing inequality.
Eliminating currency risk.
Protecting the environment.
Fixing taxation.
Curbing the power of multinationals.
Ensuring a fair response to crises.
Solving the migration problem.
The pandemic as a trigger for change.
DISADVANTAGES
Can cause more issues if the
government in the area of conflict isn't
cooperative.
Civilian casualties.
Population displacement.
Escalation of violence.
can put volunteers at risk.

 TH A NK S
for listening guys!
I hope we all work together to develop not
only our country but the whole world. Even a
small helping hand can have a big positive
impact on the whole world.