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Global Governance

Overview

Global governance is not world government. World government would make global governance unnecessary. Global governance addresses issues that are global in nature, thanks principally to the phenomenon of globalization, and thus impossible for a single nation-state to solve unilaterally. As such, global governance deals with the formal and informal rules developed by nation-states through international laws, treaties, and organizations; the procedures developed by day-to-day, routine collaborations between governments; and the standards influenced by civil society -- the collective of private citizens, multinational corporations, and nongovernmental organizations.

Background

Global governance describes how the international community functions in the absence of a world government and, thus any power of enforcement through means of force. The United Nations is one facet of a system of international governance processes based on consent. The creation of such international organizations and alliances allows nation-states to share portions of sovereignty to collectively deal with world problems. Additionally, global civil society -- non-state actors -- have influence in the development of international procedure, standards, and rules.

Issues of global governance cover a diverse spectrum -- economic, political, and social concerns are all intertwined in this approach that can be seen as a break from traditional forms of international relations, in that it recognizes world interdependence on a number of fronts as well as the validity of non-state actors, grouped generally as a global civil society.

Links/Contact

- The Centre for the Study of Global Governance
- Global Public Policy Institute

- Contact the US Mission to the UN
- Contact the US Department of State
- Find and contact your representative

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