Global Governance: Actors, Issues and Approaches

ASSIGNMENT ON:
“What is Global Governance?” By Lawrence S Finkelstein

Submitted To:
Md Robayt Khondoker, Assistant Professor
Bangladesh University of Professinals (BUP)
Masters of Peace and Conflict and Human Rights Studies
(MPSCHRS – 04, Code: 1103)

Submitted By:
Lt Cdr SHAHRIAR HAMID RASUL
Student ID: 2044101019

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 What is Global Governance?
• Inescapable ambiguity about the nature of the “International
System”

• Does Global means what has been signified by “International, inter-

state, inter-governmental or even, often, transnational?”

• Intention of the great changes occurring both in Dynamics of

Relations in world of states and in understandings of those
Dynamics

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 What is Global Governance? (Continued)
• Former UN Secretary General Mr Boutros Boutros – Ghali
emphasized:
 Internationalizations of problems of Human Rights and Democracy.
 States to deal with, within their own boundaries
 Political Internationals – “the first signs of an emerging transnational
democratic politics”
• “Two level games” or Double – edged Diplomacy?
• James Rosenau referred: “The crazy – quilt nature of modern inter-
dependence”

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 Global Governance – Ambiguity
• What is meant by “Global”?
• What is meant by “Governance”?

• Ambiguities justified by Rosenau: “Systems of rule at all levels of

human activity – from the family to their international
organisation, in which the pursuit of goals through the exercise of
control has transnational repercussions”
repercussions

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 Global Governance – Ambiguity
• What is meant by “Global”?
• What is meant by “Governance”?

• Ambiguities justified by Rosenau: “Systems of rule at all levels of

human activity – from the family to their international
organisation, in which the pursuit of goals through the exercise of
control has transnational repercussions”
repercussions
• Rosenau broaden the definition, saying “Rule” means “Control” or
“Steering”, which requires “Controllers” to modify the “Behaviour”
of other actors

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 Global Governance – Quest for Final Definition
• Possible to define “Global Governance” or GG in a way that gives
greater direction to the research enterprise without abandoning
concern for or sacrificing access, to an expanding universe of actors,
issues and activities

• It is important to recognize that “we need the term GG, because

government is lacking in the world of states”

• What we need, the conceptualization that enables us to penetrate

and understand the government – like events that occur in the
world of states even in the absence of government

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 Global Governance – The Final Definition
• Important to recognize that, “although adopting rules may be a
primary objective of governance, as of government, and may even
be the most important service performed”

• Global Governance is “governing without sovereign authority,

relationships that transcend national frontiers”

• Global Governance is “doing internationally what governments do

at home”

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 THANK YOU SIR
Any Queries, Please?

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