THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
CONTEMPORARY
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Presented by:
GROUP 5
SERAPION, NATHANIEL N.
BISCARRA, JIM
BODKAEN, JAN ALLEN
RECOMENDABLE, RUTH
What is Global Governance?
A movement towards political integration of transnational actors
aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affect more than one
state or region.
It tends to involve institutionalization.
These institutions of global governance – the
United Nations, the International Criminal
Court, the World Bank, etc. – tend to have lim-
ited or demarcated power to enforce compliance.
What is Global Governance?
The modern question of world governance exists in the context of
globalization and globalizing regimes of power: politically, economi-
cally and culturally.
In response to the acceleration of interdepen-
dence on a worldwide scale, both between hu-
man societies and between humankind and the
biosphere, the term “global governance” may
also be used to name the process of designating
laws, rules, or regulations intended for a global
scale.
What is Global Governance?
Weiss & Thakur (2014) describe global governance as
the totality of norms, laws, policies, and bodies that
define, comprise, and facilitate transnational relations
between citizens, states, cultures, intergovernmental,
and non-governmental organizations.
Thomas Weiss
Though global governance is rule-based, it has no cen-
tral authority. However, there are systems for interna-
tional relationship that bind the States, people, and
society together.
Ramesh Thakur
New Forms of Governance
The first is governance without gov-
ernment management. (Rosenau &
Czempiel, 1992)
For example, various matters are
managed within the nation-state with-
out the involvement of state govern-
ment. Thus, locales and regions within
the nation-state may manage them-
selves.
New Forms of Governance
The second is governance through var-
ious public policy networks.
At the global level, this involves gov-
ernment by various international in-
stitutions as well as International Non-
Governmental Organizations (INGOs)
and private sector organizations of
various sorts.
New Forms of Governance
Finally, governance at the global level
can be normatively mediated and
moderated.
Included here are efforts driven by
values including the Commission on
Global Governance as well as the
“Global Compact” created by Former
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
UNITED NATIONS (UN)
The United Nations (UN) is an intergov-
ernmental organization aiming to maintain
international peace and security, develop
friendly relations among nations, achieve in-
ternational cooperation, and be a center for
harmonizing the actions of nations. It is the
world's largest, and most familiar, interna-
tional organization.
The UN is headquartered on international territory in New York
City and has other main offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna,
and The Hague.
UNITED NATIONS (UN)
The United Nations (UN) is also a space for
its members to manifest their perspectives
through its core organs and committees.
The organization has become an instrument
for governments to identify spaces of
agreement and resolve problems collectively
by enabling the exchange of opinions be-
tween and among its members and by host-
ing consultations.
Six (6) Organs of United Nations
1. The General Assembly
is the central deliberative and the only or-
gan where all member-states have equal
representation in discussion and considera-
tion, and policymaking.
2. The Security Council
the organ which has the commitment to
preserve peace and security.
Six (6) Organs of United Nations
3. The Economic and Social Council
is the main organ for cooperation, policy
review, policy dialogue, and advice on so-
cial, economic, and environmental issues.
4. The Trusteeship Council
the organ tasked to administer interna-
tional oversight for 11 trust territories and
to make sure that adequate procedures are
taken for independence and self-govern-
ment.
Six (6) Organs of United Nations
5. The International Court of Justice
is the United Nation’s prime judicial organ.
6. The Secretariat
is the organ tasked to execute the daily ac-
tivities as assigned by the five other organs.
Role and Purpose of United Nations
To maintain international peace and se-
curity;
To develop friendly relations among na-
tions based on respect for the principle
of equal rights and self-determination of
peoples;
Role and Purpose of United Nations
To cooperate in solving international
economic, social, cultural and humani-
tarian problems and in promoting re-
spect for human rights and fundamental
freedoms;
To be a center for harmonizing the ac-
tions of nations in attaining these com-
mon ends.
Role and Purpose of United Nations
In order for international laws to
be upheld, UN settles legal dis-
putes referred to it by the mem-
ber-states.
It also accords advisory opinions
on questions that are of legal na-
ture submitted by legitimate UN
organs and particular agencies.
Role and Purpose of United Nations
The Security Council’s veto power over
resolutions is one of the challenges that UN
has been facing since the organization’s
foundation.
For example, the UN resolution in Decem-
ber 2017 that required US President Donald
Trump to withdraw the recognition of
Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel was
vetoed by the US in the Security Council. In
effect, the resolution was not passed.
Challenges of Global Governance in the 21st Century
1. The increasing “premigration” of the
global order
This reflects increasing global diversity
as well as the array of contradictory
forces that have been unleashed as a re-
sult. Among those contradictory forces
are globalization and localization, cen-
tralization and decentralization, and in-
tegration and fragmentation (premi-
gration).
Challenges of Global Governance in the 21st Century
2. The declining power of nation-states
If states themselves are less able to
handle various responsibilities, this
leaves open the possibility of the emer-
gence of some form of global gover-
nance to fill the void.
Challenges of Global Governance in the 21st Century
3. The vast flows of all sorts of things that
run into and often right through the bor-
ders of nation-states
This could involve the flow of digital in-
formation of all sorts through the in-
ternet. It is difficult, it not impossible,
for a nation-state to stop such flow and
in any case, it is likely that such action
would be politically unpopular and
bring much negative reaction to the na-
tion-state involved in such an effort.
Challenges of Global Governance in the 21st Century
4. The mass migration of people and their
entry, often illegally, into various nation-
states
If states are unable to control this flow,
then there is a need for some sort of
global governance to help deal with the
problem. The flow of criminal elements,
as well as their products (drug, laun-
dered money, those bought and sold in
sex trafficking, etc.), is a strong factor
in the call for global governance.
Challenges of Global Governance in the 21st Century
5. Horrendous events within nation-states
that the states themselves either foment
and carry out or are unable to control
For example, in Darfur, Sudan, per-
haps hundreds of thousands have been
killed and millions of people displaced
and the lives of many more disrupted in
a conflict that dates to early 2003.
Challenges of Global Governance in the 21st Century
6. Then there are global problems that single na-
tion-states cannot hope to tackle on their own
One, of course, is the global financial crises and
panics (including the current one) that sweep
the world periodically and which nations are of-
ten unable to deal with on their own. Indeed,
some nations (e.g. the nations of Southeast Asia)
have often been, and are being, victimized by
such crises. Unable to help themselves, such na-
tions are in need of assistance from some type of
global governance.
Relevance of State Amid Globalization
With globalization, the nation-state faces in-
numerable challenges, leading to a significant
loss of control over economic flows and
transnational organizations.
Although the role of the nation-state has de-
clined, it is still an important political struc-
ture. However, in the global age, the “poros-
ity” of the nation-state, the increasing global
flows through it, should be a focal concern.
