CHAPTER 4

Introduction

- State is a political unit

- The Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 – notion of the nation state and the idea of state
sovereignty
- Some scholars suggest a decrease in the power of the state and other actors are becoming
more powerful
- International and regional bond bodies ( IMF and World bank)
- Multinational corporations and non-governmental organization (Amnesty International)
- Emergence of non-state organizations (Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and terrorists orgs.) seeks power to
depose a government and replace the system with their own belief

Global Governance in the Twenty-First Century

- There is a series of specific factors behind the emergence of global governance

- 1st factor – the declining power of nation states
- 2nd factor – the vast flows of all sorts of things that run into and often right through the
borders of nation states (eg. Flow of digital information through the net)
- 3rd factor – mass migration of people and their entry (often illegally) into various nation
states
- Horrendous events within nation-states that the states themselves either foment and carry
out, or are unable to control (eg. Death of hundreds and thousands people in Dafur, Sundan
and disrupted lives)
- Global financial crises and panic – one example of global problems that single nation-state
cannot hope to tackle on their own
- Nation of Southeast Asia – have often been, and are being victimized by such crisis