Global Governance

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Global Governance

• Institutions for managing relations between
  states, across range of issues
• Includes states, IGOs, NGOs, transnational
  movements
• Multi-layered system
• Challenge how to make system more effective,
  just, responsive

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Managing Global Problems

• Need to balance global/common good with
  local/national needs
• What are the tensions between the global good
  and national needs?
• resources, global warming, population, trade,
  finance, weapons proliferation, ethnicity

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Global Governance

• Where is the locus of governance today?
• Where should the locus of governance be?
• Hyperglobalist argument
• state legitimacy and capacity weakening
• governance should lie with regional/global
  institutions
• Skeptics argument
• state remains principal form of political rule
• state is community of fate that governs itself

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Governance and the State

• Can globalization be regulated?
• What role do states play?
• Is the state weakening?
• Capitalist threat
• Environmental limits
• Identity politics and transnational civil society

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Dilemmas of Global Governance

• Role of great powers
• governance requires hegemon but hegemon may be
  reluctant and viewed as unjust
• Role of IOs
• sovereignty powerful and IOs weak
• NGOs
• growing international civil society?
• Global values
• or cultural exceptionalism, diversity and
  nationalism?

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The Democratic Challenge

• Globalization creates democratic deficit
• Democratic project occurs within the state but
  power is exercised on transnational and global
  scale
• Solutions
• Reform existing institutions global parliament
• Cosmopolitan democratic law

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Governance Summary

• Globalization transforms state power and nature
  of political community
• State weakening thesis inaccurate
• States remain powerful actor in global governance
  system
• Civil society, aided by states, can overcome
  democratic deficit

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Globalization Challenges

• For states and individuals
• to find healthy balance between preserving sense
  of identity, home and community, and surviving
  and thriving in globalization system
• For students
• to understand inter-relationships among
• trade and finance, politics, culture, technology,
  security, and ecology
• to appreciate duality of globalization
• integration-fragmentation, universalism-particular
  ism borderless world-sovereignty