CHAPTER 2:

CONTEMPORARY
GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE
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SHERWIN DELACION MARK MERCADO MICA ROSE VELILA

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 CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE
Global Governance or World Governance
product of neo-liberalism paradigm shifts in international
political and economic relations.
movement towards political integration of transnational
actors.
tends to involve institutionalization
the United Nations (UN), International Criminal Court, and
World Bank, etc. are institutions of global governance.
 CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE
Global Governance or World Governance
a tool to identify solutions to problems created by neo-
liberal globalization.
concerned with issues that have become too complex for a
single state to address alone.
as the sum of laws, norms, policies, and institutions that
define, constitute, and mediate trans-border relations
between states, cultures, citizens, inter-govermental and
non-govermental organizations, and the market.
 CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE
Global Governance or World Governance
viewed as the sum of governance processes operating in the
absence of world government.
International Organizations (IOs) and United Nations (UN)
are essential to the understanding of contemporary global
governance
 ROLES & FUNCTIONS OF
UNITED NATIONS
Promote international cooperation and to
create and maintain international order.
In politics, UN has the roles of preventing and
managing conflicts, regulating armaments,
championing human rights, and etc.
In policy motivation, peacekeeping is the most
important feature of UN activity in peace and
security.
 FOUR MAIN PURPOSES OF
UN CHARTER
1. Maintaining worldwide peace and security
2. Developing relations among nations
3. Fostering cooperation between nations in
order to solve economic, social, cultural, or
humanitarian international problems
4. Providing a forum for bringing countries
together to meet the UN's purposes and goals
 CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE IN THE
21ST CENTURY
It is a process which allows interconnectivity
across different borders and sovereign
territories. Global governance is governing,
without sovereign authority, relationships that
transcend national frontiers. Global governance
has evolved as one of the most influencing tools
for globalization which has led to the foundation
of sustainable development projects around the
globe.
 CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE IN THE
21ST CENTURY
Threats at the beginning New generation of global
of the century includes: challenges includes:
ethnic conflicts climate change
infectious diseases energy security
terrorism food and water scarcity
international migration
flows
new technologies
 CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE IN THE
21ST CENTURY
The new governance challenges in the 21 st century
being related to globalization entail multiple trajectories of
change within states, among actors inside and outside
nation states, as well as new forms of resource mobilization
and risk allocation.
The first trajectory or path is the depoliticization. A
second trajectory is the rescaling of economic and social
relations. Also, Law is also a critical ingredient for
transforming real assets into commodities and ultimately
financial assets, that is, the third path which is the
capitalization of assets.
 ROLE OF NATION-STATE
IN GLOBALIZATION
Basic Elements of a State
1. Territory
2. People
3. Sovereign Power
Nation-state role in globalization is complex.
Since nation-states are divided by physical and
economic boundaries, reduced barriers in
international commerce and communication are
considered their potential threat.
 ROLE OF NATION-STATE
IN GLOBALIZATION
Globalization has potential effects to globalization. These
include favoring Westernization.
Nation-states are challenged by multinational corporations
to address the issue of foreign direct investments to force
nation-states to ascertain the allowable international
influence in their economies.
The role of the nation-state in a global world is largely a
regulatory one as the chief factor in global interdependence
while nation-state’s domestic role is unchanged. Roles of
some states were diminished while others have exalted
roles due to interactions of various economic imbalances.
 GLOBALIZATION'S IMPACT
ON THE STATE
Factors which lead to the increase and acceleration
of movement of people, information, commodities
and capital.
1. Lifting of trade barriers
2. Liberalization of world capital markets
3. Swift technological progress (information
technology, transportation and communication)
 GLOBALIZATION'S IMPACT
ON THE STATE
Problems afflicting the world today which are
increasingly transnational in nature - those that
cannot be solved at the national level or State to
State negotiations.
1. Poverty
2. Environmental pollution
3. Economic crisis
4. Organized crime and terrorism
 GLOBALIZATION'S IMPACT
ON THE STATE
Effects of greater economic and social
interdependence to national decision- making
processes.
1. It calls for a transfer of decisions to the
international level
2. It requires many decisions to be transferred to
local levels of government due to an increase in the
demand for participation.
 GLOBALIZATION'S IMPACT
ON THE STATE
The following are guaranteed by nation-State:
1. Internal and external security
2. Law established
3. National welfare systems funding
4. Structures provided for popular representation
5. Public accountability instituted
6. Framework for economic and social activities built.

The following can be guaranteed only by the States

through independent courts:
1. Respect of human rights and justice
2. Promote the national welfare
3. Protect the general
GLOBALIZATION'S IMPACT
ON THE STATE
The State has the roles in operating the intricate web of
multi-lateral arrangements and inter-governmental
regimes, enter into agreements with other States, make
policies which shape national and global activities, agenda
of integration by clearly pronouncing the problem of
capacity inadequacy of individual States.
Though State is required by globalization to imrove its
capacity to deal with greater openness, it must remain
central to the well-being of its citizens and to the proper
management of social and economic development.
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