GLOBAL

GOVERNANCE
in the 21 st

Century
Let’s go and
learn!
Table of
Contents!
Definition of Global
Governance Challenges to
Explain the definition of Global Government and State
Governance Explain the global social
movement as one of the
Factors leading to challenges in government and
Global Governance nation-state
Discuss the 5 factors leading to
Global Governance
What is
Global
Governance? ● refers to the collective efforts
to identify, understand and
address worldwide problems
that go beyond the problem-
solving capacities of states
(Weiss, 2010)
 Factors leading to
Global Governance
1. Declining power of
nation-states
2. Vast flows of all sorts of
things that run into and
often right through the
borders of nation-states
3. Mass migration of people
and their entry, often illegally,
into various nation-states
4. Horrendous events within
nation-states
5. Global problems that single
nation-states cannot hope to
tackle on their own
 Evidences of the declining
Declining power of nation-states
power of 1. The national government increasingly face
nation-states problems that are too big for them to handle
with

2. United Nations and the universal

If states th declaration of human rights
emeselve
able to ha sa
ndle vario re less
responsib u s
iliti
the possib es, this leaves ope
ility of th n
of some f e emerge 3. The multinational corporation and
orm of glo n c e
governan bal
ce to fill
the void transnational corporation

4. The limited power of the nation-state

Vast flows of all sorts of
things that run into
Internet censorship in
and often right through China
the borders of nation-
states
“Friction and Flowing” the strategy
used by China to control the flow of
information and to limit the access to it.
China’s effo
rts
interfere wit to
h the
internet hav
e brought
great conde
mnation
both interna
lly and
externally
 Drugs, Human
Mass migration of Trafficking, Money
people and their entry, Laundering, etc.
often illegally, into
various nation-states

al
h e f l ow of crimin heir
T t
e n t s, as well as tor
elem g fac
ro d u c ts is a stron
p bal
ll for glo
in the ca
ce
governan
Horrendous events Conflict in Darfur,
within nation-states 2003

Set of issu
es has led
calls for glo to
bal
governance
ev
the states th ents that
emselves a
unable to c re
ontrol

JANJAWEED MILITIA
Global problems that
single nation-states Global financial crisis
cannot hope to tackle The global financial crisis (GFC) refers to the period of

on their own extreme stress in global financial markets and banking

systems between mid 2007 and early 2009. During the GFC,
a downturn in the US housing market was a catalyst for a
financial crisis that spread from the United States to the rest
of the world through linkages in the global financial system.
Many banks around the world incurred large losses and
relied on government support to avoid bankruptcy. Millions
of people lost their jobs as the major advanced economies
experienced their deepest recessions since the Great
Unable to h Depression in the 1930s. Recovery from the crisis was also
elp
themselves much slower than past recessions that were not associated
, such nati
are in need ons with a financial crisis.
of assistan
from some ce
type of
global gov
ernance
Challenges to
Government and
State
Global social movements (GSMs) are
networks that collaborate across
borders to advance thematically
similar agendas throughout the world
and in doing so have become powerful
actors in global governance.
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