URDANETA CITY UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
1ST SEMESTER A.Y.2021-2022

Contemporary Global Governance

 2.4 Contemporary Global Governance

LESSON OUTCOMES:
At the end the lesson, the learners are expected to
demonstrate the following:
• Identify the roles and functions of the United Nations
• Describe the challenges of global governance in the 21 st
century
• Explain the relevance of the nation-state amid globalization
 LESSON PROPER:

Global governance

Governance is the sum of laws, norms, policies and

institutions that define, constitute, mediate trans-border
relations between states, cultures, citizens,
intergovernmental and non-governmental organization and
the market.
 DISCUSSION POINTS

Rules-based order without government.

There is no central authority.

THERE IS NO GLOBAL GOVERNMENT.

 DISCUSSION POINTS
INTERNATIONAL ACTORS OF GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE
1. States
2. International organizations (like ASEAN)
3. Civil Society (like NGOs –Greenpeace and CBO –
senior citizen associations)
4. Market (global corporations)
 DISCUSSION POINTS

- Universal membership (193)

United Nations
as a global governance actor
- With international bureaucracy (6 organs)
- A mechanism for information and actions
- A symbol of an imagined and constructed
community
- Prevent and manage trans-boundary conflict
 DISCUSSION POINTS

UN Organs
General Assembly - main deliberative body, policymaking
and representative organ of 193 member states
Security Council - responsibility for the maintenance of
peace and security
Economic and Social Council - principal body for
coordination, policy review, policy dialogue, and
recommendations on economic, social and environmental
issues;
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UN Organs
International Court of Justice - UN’s principal judicial organ

Secretariat - carries out the daily activities as mandated by the five

other organs

Trusteeship Council - provides international supervision for 11 Trust

Territories and ensure that adequate steps are taken for self-
government and independence. It suspended its operation in 1994
after the independence Palau, the last Trust Territory
 DISCUSSION POINTS
Confronts
the 21st • Human rights
ACTOR Century
• International
Law
challenges

Role of UN A space for

members to
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opinions and
perspectives
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Functions of UN
1. To maintain international peace and
security
2. To protect human rights
3. To deliver humanitarian aid.
4. To promote sustainable
development
5. To uphold international law.
 DISCUSSION POINTS

Challenges of UN

1. Veto power of the five permanent members of the

Security Council
2. Police power to regulate actions of the member states
and enforce orders and decisions
3. The growing number of “problems without passport”
 PROCESSING QUESTION

Is the state still relevant amid globalization

of governance?
 DISCUSSION POINTS

No intergovernmental organization if there are no

states.
International and multinational agreements are
designed by the state and propelled by the
initiatives that they undertake.
Bertucci & Alberti (2014)
 DISCUSSION POINTS

Sovereignty has not been diminished for the state is

the source of cooperation and concerted action
among the states & represents the greater exercise
of their sovereignty.

Bertucci & Alberti (2014)

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