CONTEMPORARY

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Bernard P. Batoon, LPT
CONTEMPORARY
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Collective efforts to identify,
understand and address global
problems that go beyond the
problem-solving capacities of
states (Weiss, 2010).
CONTEMPORARY
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Capacity within the international
system, at any given moment, to
provide government-like services
and public goods in the absence of
a world government.
WHAT HAPPENED TO
TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL?

UN’S FIVE ORGANS

WHY?
 UN’S FIVE ORGANS
GENERAL ASSEMBLY SECURITY INT’L COURT OF JUSTICE
COUNCIL
Decision-making Can authorize the Can settle, according
Representative deployment of UN to international law,
Assembly member states’ legal disputes
Responsible for militaries, mandate between States and
a cease-fire during give opinions,
upholding the
conflicts, and primarily advisory,
principles of the enforce penalties on on legal questions
UN through its countries if they do brought to it by UN
policies and not comply with organs and agencies.
recommendations. given mandates.
UN’S FIVE ORGANS
ECOSOC SECRETARIAT

Assists the UN
 Provides studies,
General Assembly
information, and
in promoting other dates when
economic and needed by other
social UN branches for
development and their meetings.
the cooperation of  
member states.
THE G20+ AND A NEW FRAMEWORK
FOR GLOBAL COOPERATION
 What is G20?
AN INTERNATIONAL FORUM COMPRISING 19
COUNTRIES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION. IT WORKS
TO ADDRESS MAJOR ISSUES RELATED TO THE
GLOBAL ECONOMY, SUCH AS INTERNATIONAL
FINANCIAL STABILITY, CLIMATE CHANGE
MITIGATION, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

AUSTRALIA, SAUDI ARABIA, CANADA, ARGENTINA, SOUTH

KOREA, ITALY, SOUTH AFRICA, FRANCE, UK, GERMANY,
TURKEY, JAPAN, MEXICO, RUSSIA, BRAZIL, INDONESIA,
UNITED STATES, INDIA, AND CHINA.
What is G20+?
❖ The core functions, structure, membership, and ties to
the UN of the G20+ within the broader new framework
for global economic cooperation includes the following
integral functions:
o Facilitate multi-stakeholder, cross-disciplinary dialogue
and policy solutions;
o Promote inclusive economic reform; and
o Enable global economic crisis response