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Global Governance

How is the world governed even in the absence of a world government in order to produce norms, codes
of conduct, and regulatory, surveillance, and compliance instruments? How are values allocated quasi-
authoritatively for the world, and as accepted as such, without a government to rule the world?

The answer…lies in global governance. 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”.
- Thakur & Weiss (2015)
Global Governance

Global governance is understood as “…the way in which global affairs are managed. As there is no
global government, global governance typically involves a range of actors including states, as well as regional
and international organizations. However, a single organization may nominally be given the lead role on an
issue, for example the World Trade Organization in world trade affairs. Thus global governance is thought to be
an international process of consensus-forming which generates guidelines and agreements that affect national
governments and international corporations. Examples of such consensus would include WHO policies on
health issues” (WHO, 2015).

Criticisms

However, there have been criticisms by some against the idea of global governance. For example, the
WHO (2015) points out some arguments that critics make, namely that “Critics argue that global governance
mechanisms support the neo-liberal ideology of globalization and reduce the role of the state (and thus its
sovereignty) to that of an adjusting body for the implementation of international policies. Some argue that, as a
result, the interests of the poorest people and nations will be ignored unless they have a direct impact on the
global economy.”

As Thomas Weiss has observed, “Many academics and international practitioners employ ‘governance’
to connote a complex set of structures and processes, both public and private, while more popular writers tend
to use it synonymously with ‘government’.

*please refer in the Worktext in the Contemporary World

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LEARNING ACTIVITY 1

Name: _______________________________________ Score: _________________

Course: ______________________________________ Date: __________________

The Qualities of a Leader

A. This activity starts with your students contributing a list of qualities or characteristics they think are
important in leadership. Elect a facilitator to come to the front of the class and write each contributed
characteristic on the board, as the other students volunteer their ideas. At the same time, you will be writing the
characteristics on small slips of paper, to go into a hat. The list can be of any length.

Example: characteristics may be: empathy, strength, decision-making, trustworthiness, goals, integrity, risk-
taking, vision, respect, etc.

*please refer in the Worktext in the Contemporary World

SUMMARY

Global governance is a product of neo-liberal paradigm shifts in international political and economic
relations. The privileging of capital and market mechanisms over state authority created governance gaps that
have encouraged actors from private and civil society sectors to assume authoritative roles previously
considered the purview of the State. This reinforces the divergence of views about how to define the concept of
global governance, issues that are of the utmost importance and priority. Some scholars argue that global
governance as it is practiced is not working (Coen and Pegram, 2015: 417), while others believe that global
governance is constantly adapting by readjusting strategies and approaches to solutions and developing new
tools and measures to deal with issues that impact communities throughout the world (Held and Hale, 2011).

According to Lawrence Finkelstein, “We say ‘governance’ because we don’t really know what to call
what is going on.”9 In this section, we Klaus Dingwerth and Philipp Pattberg 187 test this claim against the
background of the use of the term global governance in contemporary academic writings

As Thomas Weiss has observed, “Many academics and international practitioners employ ‘governance’
to connote a complex set of structures and processes, both public and private, while more popular writers tend
to use it synonymously with ‘government’.”

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REFERENCES

Mendoza, Et.al, 2019. WORKTEXT IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD. Nieme Publishing House. Co.Ltd.
Klaus Dingwerth and Philipp Pattberg, 2006, Global Governance as a Perspective on World Politics, Global
Governance 12,185-203, Date Accessed, April 2019.
OHCHR, OHRLLS, UNDESA, UNEP, UNFPA (January 2013), Global governance and governance of the
global commons in the global partnership for development beyond 2015 Retrieved from 24.think.piece. Global
governance Accessed on April 12, 2019
Doris A. Fuchs, “Globalization and Global Governance: Discourses on Political Order at the Turn of the
Century,” in Doris Fuchs and Friedrich Kratochwil, eds., Transformative Change and Global Order: Reflections
on Theory and Practice (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2002), p. 11.
Cf. Hall and Biersteker, The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance. 32. Rosenau, “Governance
in the Twenty-first Century,” p. 15.
. Konrad Späth, Inside Global Governance: New Borders of a Concept, paper prepared for the workshop
“Critical Perspectives on Global Governance,” Amerang, Germany, 1–3 November 2002, p. 1.
Commission on Global Governance, Our Global Neighbourhood, pp. 335–357; the quote appears on p. 335.
Holger Mürle, “Global Governance: Literaturbericht und Forschungsfragen“ (Global governance: Literature
review and research questions), INEF Report 32 (Duisburg: Institut fır Entwicklung und Frieden [INEF], 1998),
pp. 10–11.

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