Global Governance

Question 1

Dicken (2015)

Answer 1

• The state has always been powerful and has not lost its power
• Not damaged by the financial crash in 2008
• Not been “emasculated by globalising forces”
• States regulate economies and movement of people

Question 2

Elliott (2013)

Answer 2

Different actors work on different scales yet are increasingly working together

Supra-national organisations exhibit command and control and may block innovation, be economically inefficient and find it hard to regulate and enforce punishments, Kyoto protocol 1992

Question 3

Haarstad (2014)

Answer 3

Scale problems in global governance, must understand the relationships between scales in order to further understandings of constraints.

Assign responsibilities to the global, not assessing action at different levels

Top needs to understand the bottom

Question 4

Murray and Overton (2014)

Answer 4

Politics are becoming globalised

supra national organisations can enforce political change across borders

however nation states can remain different

Question 5

Peet (2007)

Answer 5

• The world remains highly uneven focuses of power in the west
• Neoliberalism has produced the inequality
• State led - china - produces protests and exploitation
• Progress has become dependent on FDI and the minority elite can exercise their control
• Global suggests movement for universal progress however inequalities scupper this - extraction from poorer countries