CONTEMPORARY

GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE
 Do you agree that as a human
being you are accountable of
every action that you do.
Wherever you go and
whatever you do?
  Global governance refers to the various
DEFINITION intersecting processes that create order.
OF
GLOBAL  Global governance is the purposeful order that
GOVERNANCE emerges from institutions, processes, norms,
formal agreements, and informal mechanisms
that regulate action for the common good. 
 • harmonization of laws among states
METHODS OF • international regimes
GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE: • global policy issue networks
• hybrid institutions
There are many sources of global governance:
 States sign treaties and form organizations, in
the process legislating public international law.
 International non-governmental organizations
(INGOs), though not having formal state
power, can lobby individual states to behave in
certain way.
 THE UNITED NATIONS

 The United Nations is the most prominent International

Organization in the contemporary world. It was founded
shortly after World War II. After the collapse of the League of
Nations at the end of the World War II, countries that worried
about another global war began to push for the formation of
a more lasting international league.
 Although the organization is far from perfect, it should be
emphasized that it has so far achieved its primary goal of
averting another global war.
 1. Maintain International Peace and Security.
FUNCTIONS
OF THE
UNITED
NATIONS
 2. Protect Human Rights.

FUNCTIONS
OF THE
UNITED
NATIONS
 3. Deliver Humanitarian Aid.

FUNCTIONS
OF THE
UNITED
NATIONS
 4. Support Sustainable Development and
Climate Action.
FUNCTIONS
OF THE
UNITED
NATIONS
 5. Uphold International Law

FUNCTIONS
OF THE
UNITED
NATIONS
 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY (GA)
 the UN’s main deliberative policy making and
FIVE ACTIVE representative organ.
ORGANS OF  Annually, the General Assembly elects a GA President
to serve a one-year term of office.” All member states
THE UNITED (currently at 193) have seats in the GA.
NATIONS
  Disarmament and International Security Committee
(First Committee)
THE GENERAL  Economic and Financial Committee (Second
ASSEMBLY (GA)
Committee)
 Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (Third
The Six Main Committee)
Committees:  Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee)
 Administrative and Budgetary Committee (Fifth
Committee)
 Legal Committee (Sixth Committee)
 THE GENERAL  African States
ASSEMBLY (GA)  Asia-Pacific States
 Eastern European States
The Regional
 Latin American and Caribbean States
Groupings:
 Western European and other States
 SECURITY COUNCIL (SC)
-Although the GA is the most representative organization in
FIVE ACTIVE the UN, many commentators consider the Security Council
ORGANS OF (SC) to be the most powerful.

THE UNITED -has primary responsibility, under the UN Charter, for the
maintenance of international peace and security.  It has 15
NATIONS Members (5 permanent and 10 non-permanent members).
 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (ECOSOC)
FIVE ACTIVE -which is the principal body for coordination, policy
ORGANS OF review, policy dialogue, and recommendations on social
and environmental issues, as well as the
THE UNITED implementation of internationally agreed development
NATIONS goals.
 • promoting higher standards of living, full
employment, and economic and social
progress;
ECOSOC is • identifying solutions to international
responsible economic, social and health problems;
for: • facilitating international cultural and
educational cooperation; and
• encouraging universal respect for human
rights and fundamental freedoms.
 INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
-which task is to settle, in accordance with international
FIVE ACTIVE law, legal disputes submitted to it by states and to give
ORGANS OF advisory opinions referred to it by authorized United Nations
organs and specialized agencies.
THE UNITED
-The major cases of the court consist of disputes between
NATIONS states that voluntarily submit themselves to the court for
arbitration.
 THE SECRETARIAT
-who carry out the day-to-day work of the UN as mandated by
FIVE ACTIVE the General Assembly and the organization’s other principal
ORGANS OF organs.
FUNCTIONS:
THE UNITED •To gather and prepare background information on
NATIONS various issues so that government delegates can study
the facts and make recommendations;
•To help carry out the decisions made by the different
organs of the United Nations;
•To organize international conferences;
•To translate speeches and distribute documents into the
UN’s official languages;
•To keep the public informed about the work of the United
Nations.
 • The secretary-general, the principal administrative officer
of the United Nations, is elected for a five-year renewable
term by a two-thirds vote of the General Assembly and by
the recommendation of the Security Council and the
approval of its permanent members.

FUNCTIONS:
• Bringing any problem that threatens world peace to
the attention of the Security Council;
António Guterres, the • Proposing issues to be discussed by the General
ninth Secretary-
General of the United Assembly or any other organ of the United Nations;
Nations, took office on 1st and
January 2017.  • Acting as a “referee” in disputes between Member
States
  ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION

Structures of  MARKET INTEGRATION

Globalization
 GLOBAL INTER-STATE SYSTEM

 CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE