GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
QUESTION???
• IMAGINE YOU ARE THE "GLOBAL GOVERNOR" OR
THE " WORLD'S PRESIDENT", WHAT ARE THE FIVE
PRIORITY PROBLEMS THAT YOU WANT TO RESOLVE
IN YOUR FIRST 12 MONTHS IN OFFICE?
Defining 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)
• The capacity of 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 a
combination of informal and formal ideas, values, rules,
norms, procedures, practices, policies, and organizations
that help all actors – states, international organizations,
non-government organizations - identify, understand, and
address transboundary problems.
The Role of the Nation-State in the Globalization
Basic Elements of a State
1. Territory
2. People
3. Sovereign Power (the authority of a state to govern itself)
• Nation-state's role in globalization is complex. Since
nation-states are divided by physical and economic
boundaries, reduced barriers in international commerce
and communication are considered their potential threat.
Sovereignty of individual nations is not abolished by
expanded trade among countries, instead globalization is
a force that changed the way nation-states deal with one
another, particularly in the area of international
commerce.
• In setting international commerce policies, isolated states
are forced to engage to one another, while nation- state's
domestic role unchanged. Roles of some states were
diminished while others have exalted roles due to
interactions of various economic imbalances.
Globalization's Impact on the State
Problems afflicting the world today which are increasingly
transnational in nature -those that cannot be solved at the
national level or State to State negotiàtions.
Poverty
Environmental pollution
Economic crisis
Organized crime and terrorism
Pandemics
Climate change
• Decision making processes in globalization is complex as
it takes place in various levels such as sub-national,
national, and global which lead to the growth of a multi-
layered system of governance.
• Global governance shifted from the traditional territorial
sovereign state or the nation-state to a more loose
structures warranting international cooperation,
movement, and response. In response, several non-state
bodies came about including the United Nations with the
ultimate goal of international action.
• One important example of non- state actor playing a vital
role in the world's affairs is the United Nations (UN).
• UN is designed to make enforcement of international law,
security, human rights, economic development and social
progress easier for countries around the world.
Roles and Functions of the United Nations
As an intergovernmental organization, the United Nation is
tasked to promote international cooperation and to create
and maintain international order. It is the largest, most
familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful
intergovernment organization in the world.
Four main purpose of the UN Charter
1. Maintaining worldwide peace and security
2. Developing relations among nations
3. Fostering cooperation between nations in order to solve
economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian international
problem
4. Providing a forum for bringing countries together to meet
the UN's purpose and goals
• The UN aims to save succeeding generations from the
scourge of war; to reaffirm faith in fundamental human
rights; to establish conditions under which justice and
respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other
sources of international law can be maintained; and to
promote social progress and better standards of life in
larger freedom.
ASSIGNMENT
• IMAGINE YOU ARE THE "GLOBAL GOVERNOR" OR
THE " WORLD'S PRESIDENT", WHAT ARE THE FIVE
PRIORITY PROBLEMS THAT YOU WANT TO RESOLVE
IN YOUR FIRST 12 MONTHS IN OFFICE?
