W2: Reading (T.G. Weiss & R. Wilkinson)

Question 1

global governance

Answer 1

descriptor for an increasingly crowded world stage, a call to arms, an attempt to control the pernicious aspects of globalisation, and a synonym for world government

Question 2

Global governance invoked to indicate a super-macrolevel of analysis:
On the one hand…
On the other hand…

Answer 2

On one hand: has become both widespread and useful for describing growing complexity in the way that the world is organised and authority exercised as well as shorthand for referring to a collecting of institutions with planetary reach
On other hand: has not been mined sufficiently to enable us to get a better handle on the underlying dynamics of change

Question 3

investigation into global governance should concentrate on 4 primary pursuits

Answer 3

1. Should move beyond strong association that has come to exist between the term and virutally any change in the late 20th C.
2. should identify & explain the strucure of global authority accounting not just for grand patterns of command & control but also for how regional, national, and local systems intersect with or push against the structure
3. to investigate the myriad ways that power is exercises within such systems, how interests are articulated and pursued, the kind of ideas and discourses from which power and interests draw substance as well as which help establish, maintain and perpetuate the system
4. should account for changes in and of the system and focus on the causes, consequences, and drivers of chznge, not just today but over extended periods of time

Question 4

emergence of global governance

1990s:

Answer 4

• term became entwined with the other meta-phenomenon of the last two decades: globalisation
• term emerged as acceptable term im debate on international organisatoin for the desired and practical goal of progressive efforts, in place of ‘world government’

Question 5

EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

world order failed to capture…

Answer 5

variety of actors, networks, relationships that characterised contemporary international relations

Question 6

‘global governance’

Answer 6

“procedures and practices which exit at the world (or regional) level for the management of political, economic, and social affairs.
One form of coordination: hierarchical; centralised/decentralised.
Other form of coordination: non-hierarchical ; multilateral”

Question 7

3 broad developments in global governance underpinned appearance

1. character of global problems

Answer 7

Development of consiouscess about the global environment and the consequences of human interactions, usually seen as a game-changer in evolution of thinking

Question 8

3 broad developments in global governance underpinned appearance

Nature of actors

Answer 8

Sheer expression in number and importance of nonstate actors (NSAs), particularly civil society and for-orofit corporations and those with transnational reach

Question 9

3 broad developments in global governance underpinned appearance

Perceived limitations of international measure to govern the planet

Answer 9

Increasingly trans-border nature of problems and state incapacity to address them with a desire to draw from the untapped potential of ‘new’ global actors by encouraging it not only to reform but also to partner with others to address pressing issues.

Question 10

Evolution global governance

emphasis on role of major powers in IGOs as…

Answer 10

central lens thourgh which to view human progress

Question 11

global problems require global solutions

Answer 11

• identify cooperation at various levels and with specific actors so that we can determine how global public goods may result from a host of means & forms, formal and informal, including supranational authority
• in accepting limits and global governance without global government: numerous gaps should and could be better plugged, in variety of ways in order to better address key problems confronting international society
• vision in essential because history is not prophecy