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Contemporary Global Governance

Global governance is the capacity within the international system to provide public goods without a world government. It has shifted away from the traditional sovereign nation-state model towards more loose and cooperative structures due to factors like increased globalization and the rise of supranational bodies. In response, several non-state actors have emerged to facilitate international cooperation, including the United Nations and its branches that work on issues like security, development and law. The G20+ framework has also been proposed as a competent coordination body connected to the UN to help preserve global economic stability through inclusive reform and crisis response.

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Contemporary Global Governance

Global governance is the capacity within the international system to provide public goods without a world government. It has shifted away from the traditional sovereign nation-state model towards more loose and cooperative structures due to factors like increased globalization and the rise of supranational bodies. In response, several non-state actors have emerged to facilitate international cooperation, including the United Nations and its branches that work on issues like security, development and law. The G20+ framework has also been proposed as a competent coordination body connected to the UN to help preserve global economic stability through inclusive reform and crisis response.

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Contemporary

Global
Governance
Objectives
1. Understand the concept of global governance;

2. Understand the role of the state amidst globalization;

3. Determine the challenges of global governance in the


21st century; and

4. Identify the roles and functions of the United


Nations (UN).
Global Governance
- collective efforts to identify, understand, and
address worldwide problems that go beyond the
problem-solving capacities of states (Weiss,
2010)
Global Governance
- is the capacity within the international system, at any
given moment, to provide government-like services and
public goods in the absence of a world government. It is
the combination of informal and formal ideas, values,
rules, norms, procedures, practices, policies, and
organizations that help all actors-states, IGOs, civil
society and NGOs, TNCS, and individuals- identify,
understand, and address transboundary problems. At its
simplest, global governance is a set of questions that
enable us to work out how the world is, was, and could
be governed, and how changes in grand and not-so-
grand patterns of governance occurred, are occurring,
and ought to occur (Weiss, 2013).
The Uncertainty of the Sovereign Territorial
State or Nation-state
Since the end of the Cold War, the world is heading toward a less
centralized form of governance. As the United States is facing serious
setbacks in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many emerging powers
such as China, Russia, and Brazil have formed regional alliances to
create a multipolar and anti-hegemonic order, This development is
being referred to as the beginning of "the post-American world," in which
the United States retreats and the rest of the world advances in
economic power and political influence (Zakaria, 2008).

This is in stark contrast to the kind of political entity which determined


our lives: the sovereign territorial state or "nation-state." In fact, most
Western countries have lived under this kind of state since the late 18th
century or possibly earlier. This kind of state has become the universal
framework of social development.
However, after centuries of serving as an example to most, if not
all sovereign countries, this kind of state is entering a phase of
uncertainty. As a review, the notion of "nation-state" has the
following elements:
A Continuous and broken territory (preferred).

B Sovereign territory
The state has the monopoly both of law and of the
C powers of coercion.
D The national state rules its citizens or subjects directly
and not through intermediate authorities.
E Direct government and administration of inhabitants by
the central authorities of the "nation-state"
The state is considered to represent the people and the
F people serves as a source of sovereignty or at least give
the state legitimacy.
G The citizenry was or ought to form a homogenous population
(Hobsbawm, 1996).
"Is the Philippines really a sovereign
territorial state/nation-state?"
01.
The creation of a supranational economy
wherein the transactions are largely

Nowadays, the state's powers and uncontrolled by states, resulting to the


restriction of states to direct national

functions have been undermined by


economies

supranational and infra-national Rise of regional or global institutions, such as

forces, as well as what can be


02.
European Union, ASEAN, UN, to which
individual countries defer either because
they are too small to engage in effective
described as the withdrawal of its competition international competition or
because their economies are so weak
inhabitants from citizenship. These
supranational forces have weakened
the state in three ways:
03.
Territorial borders had been made largely
irrelevant by technological revolution in
transport and communications.
The Rise of Non-State Actors
A huge rise of non-state actors resulted from the occurrence above- mentioned.
These international organizations in the public and private sectors are set with
higher objectives and goals to participate in global governance and improving
lives. This rise also created a new landscape and new architectures of global
governance wherein multi-sector partnerships are present, such as transnational
businesses. Further, the loose structures of these organizations allow more efficient
courses of action than the bureaucracies of nations or states can attain.

The growth of non-state actors has meant more diversity in potential players and
partners. The proliferation of actors that are legitimately representing stakeholders
and contributing concretely to contemporary global problem-solving means that
we have come a long way from the state-centric model of traditional international
relations. The proliferation of non-state actors has ushered in an age of global
partnerships between private and public bodies on specific issues (Weiss, 2013).
The United Nations
One important example of a non-state actor, an
international government organization (IGO) playing a vital
role in the world's affairs, is the United Nations (UN). The
United Nations is an IGO designed to make the enforcement
of international law, security, human rights, economic
development, and social progress easier for countries
around the world.
The UN today is divided into
five branches:
01. 02. 03.
The UN General Assembly - is the main The UN Security Council- can authorize The International Court of Justice - can
decision-making and representative the deployment of UN member states' settle, according to international law,
assembly and is responsible for militaries, can mandate a cease-fire legal disputes between States and give
upholding the principles of the UN during conflicts, and can enforce opinions, mostly advisory, on legal
through its policies and penalties on countries if they do not questions brought to it by UN organs
recommendations, It is composed of all comply with given mandates. It is and agencies
member states and headed by a composed of five permanent members
president elected by the member and 10 rotating members.
states.
The UN today is divided into
five branches:

04. 05.
The Economic and Social Council - The Secretariat- headed by the
assists the UN General Assembly in Secretary-General, provides studies,
promoting economic and social information, and other dates when
development, as well as cooperation of needed by other UN branches for their
member states meetings
The G20+ and a New Framework
for Global Cooperation
As reiterated above, in a globally integrated world economygnized, fed
for global collective action and globally inste most universally
recognized. The proposed new framework for global economic
cooperation, with a competent and accountable coordination body
(the G20+) and connected to a representative global system (the UN),
aims to preserve global economic stability and to ensure that the
global economy continues to grow inclusively to benefit all nations
and peoples equitably.
The core functions, structure, membership, and ties to the
UN of the G20+ within the wider new framework for global
economic cooperation includes the following integral
functions:

1. Facilitate multi- 2. Promote 3. Enable global


stakeholder, cross- inclusive economic crisis
disciplinary dialogue economic response
and policy solutions reform
Summary:
Global governance is the capacity within the international
systern at any given moment to provide government-like
services and public goods in the absence of a world
government. This kind of governance shifted from the
traditional territorial sovereign state or "nation-state" to a
more loose and less stricken structures warranting
international cooperation, movement, and response. In
response, several non-state bodies came about, including the
United Nations and the G20+-all with ultimate goals of
international action.
Thank
You!

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