This presentation provides an overview of global governance, including definitions, evolution, functions, and achievements and challenges. Global governance has diverse definitions that depend on the person defining it and the circumstances. It involves collective efforts by states, international organizations, and other actors to address common issues beyond borders. Views of global governance include realist, liberalist, and those advocating for global democracy. It covers functions such as dispute resolution, standards setting, and addressing issues like security, human rights, and the environment. Achievements include organizations addressing needs, but challenges include enhancing civil society and meeting development goals.

1. WHAT IS GLOBAL GOVERNANCE?
Presented on December 1st, 2014
BY
AMINA MOHAMMED

2. Global Governance
This presentation will look at the following:
• The various definition of global governance.
• The evolution and views of global governance.
• The functions/ various aspects that drive global governance.
• Achievements and challenges.
• Conclusion and reference.

3. Global Governance
Diverse definitions
Definition depends on two factors:
• The person defining
• Under the circumstances it is used
No Consensus on Definition Yet:
• Not among academia
• Not among policy makers
• Not between academia and policy makers
Rosenau (1995;13) views global governance as perceived to
include systems of rule at all levels of human activity- from
the family to the international organization- in which the
pursuit of goals through the exercise of control has
transnational repercussions.

4. Global Governance
Attempt at a definition.
• "Government, management and
administration capabilities of the
United Nations, World Bank and
other international organizations,
various regimes, coalitions of
interested nations and individual
nations when they act globally to
address to various issues that
emerge beyond national
borders, such as development,
the environment, human rights,
infectious diseases and
international terrorism."
- Yozo Yokota, 2004

5. Global Governance
“The collective effort by
sovereign states,
international organizations,
and other non state actors to
address common challenges
and seize opportunities that
transcend national frontiers.”
- Stewart Patrick, 2014
The WHO, defines global
governance as the way in
which global affairs are
managed.

6. Global governance
Evolution and views on global governance
Since the end of the cold war,
globalization has become a buzzword, not
only in the social sciences but also in the
international political community.
The Commission on Global Governance
was an independent group of twenty-eight
leaders that issued a report called ‘Our
Global Neighbourhood’ in 1995 about the
implication of globalization for global
governance. Their conception of
globalization, too, was one of several
dimensions, including economic, security,
environment, the emergence of global civil
society, and uneven global development,
including development aid.
-Anne Mette Kjaer, 2004

7. Global governance
Views on global governance
 Realist.
The dominant analytical perspective of the time, posited that
states were the only significant actors in world politics; that
they act as units; and their military security interests trump of
their other goals.
 Liberalist.
They succeeded in debunking the realist assumption, yet it
was also clear that states remained the key factors in the
international system. However, they believe international
regimes are important in all national levels to dampen the
effects of anarchy.
 Global democracy.
They believe in the existence of global civil society and a
global citizenry call for more democratic global governance
and cosmopolitan democracy which involves a global
constitution and recasting of territorial boundaries.

8. Global Governance
Governance covers overlapping categories of functions
performed internationally, such as:
• Formulation and promulgation of principles.
• Promotion of consensual knowledge affecting the general
international order, regional orders, particular issues on
the international agenda, and efforts to influence the
domestic rules and behaviour of states.
• Good offices, conciliation, mediation, and compulsory
resolution of disputes.

9. Global Governance
Functions Continued
• Information creation and exchange.
• Regime formation, tending, and execution.
• Adoption of rules, codes, and regulations; allocation of
material and program resources.
• Provision of technical assistance and development
programs
• Relief, humanitarian, emergency, and disaster activities.
• Maintenance of peace and order.
- Finkelstein, 1995.

10. Global Governance
Analyzing the aspects of global governance:
1. Targeted organizations/ Institutions.
These would include:
• International organizations such as the United Nations and UN
organizations;
• IMF, World bank, WTO, WHO.
• Treaty organizations (regimes) that have been prominent
recently in the fields of the environment and human rights.
• Regional organizations, including the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO);
• Regional arrangements, including ASEAN and the Japan-U.S.
Security Treaty.
• Loose confederations of nations, including the Group of Eight
(G8).
• Individual nations dealing with global issues.
- Yozo Yokota, 2004

11. Global Governance
2. Targeted issues
These would include:
• Security
• Terrorism
• Disarmament
• International Criminal organization
• Poverty/ Education
• Population
• The environment
• Human rights/ Labor
• Infectious diseases/ Health
• Gender politics
• Culture
- Yozo Yokoto, 2004

12. Global Governance
3. Essential Factors of global governance
These would include:
• Efficiency (whether goals are achieved without wasting
resources).
• Effectiveness (whether issues are dealt with effectively and
satisfactory outcomes are produced)
• Fairness (whether costs and benefits are balanced)
• Transparency (whether organizations and their procedures to
resolve issues are open to public scrutiny)
• Democracy (whether all interested parties participate in the
decision-making and implementation process)
• Accountability (whether the content of activities are
sufficiently explained to interested parties and approved by
them, and whether the organizations in charge are ready to
take responsibility for the outcomes resulting from the
measures taken).
- Yozo Yokota, 2004

13. Global governance
Achievements
 Intergovernmental organizations have addressed a
host of global needs such as UN, The World bank,
WTO.
 The peaceful rise of the BRIC’s.
Challenges
 Enhancing the role of global civil society.
 Action needed in the field of green growth .
 Efforts to meet the UN’s Millennium Development
Goals with specific reference to education and health at
both national and international levels.
 National interest.

14. Global Governance
What global governance is not:
• It is not a world government
• It has no “binding” sovereignty
What global governance is:
“Governance is the sum of the many ways individuals and
institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs.
At the global level, governance has been viewed primarily as
intergovernmental relationships, but it must now be
understood as also involving non-governmental organizations
(NGOs), citizens’ movements, multinational corporations, and
the global capital market (Commission on Global Governance,
1995:2-3).
“Global governance is governing, without sovereign authority,
relationships that transcend national frontiers”. Global
governance is doing internationally what governments do at
home (Finkelstein, 1995).

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Reference

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