CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL

GOVERNANCE
 2.4 CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE
Intended Learning Outcomes:

At the end the lesson, the learners are expected to demonstrate the
following:
• Identify the roles and functions of the United Nations
• Describe the challenges of global governance in the 21st century
• Explain the relevance of the state amid globalization
 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Governance is the sum of laws, norms, policies and institutions that

define, constitute, mediate trans-border relations between states,
cultures, citizens, intergovernmental and non-governmental
organization and the market.
Rules-based order without government.

There is no central authority.

THERE IS NO GLOBAL GOVERNMENT.

 INTERNATIONAL ACTORS OF
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
1. States

2. International organizations (like ASEAN)

3. Civil Society (like NGOs –Greenpeace and CBO –senior citizen associations)

4. Market (global corporations)

 THE UNITED NATIONS
AS A GLOBAL GOVERNANCE ACTOR

- Universal membership (193)

- With international bureaucracy (6 organs)

- A mechanism for information and actions

- A symbol of an imagined and constructed community

- Prevent and manage trans-boundary conflict

 UN ORGANS
General Assembly - main deliberative body, policymaking and
representative organ of 193 member states

Security Council - responsibility for the maintenance of peace and

security

Economic and Social Council - principal body for coordination, policy

review, policy dialogue, and recommendations on economic, social
and environmental issues;
 UN ORGANS
International Court of Justice - UN’s principal judicial organ

Secretariat - carries out the daily activities as mandated by the five

other organs

Trusteeship Council - provides international supervision for 11 Trust

Territories and ensure that adequate steps are taken for self-
government and independence. It suspended its operation in 1994
after the independence Palau, the last Trust Territory
 ROLE OF UN

• Human rights
Confronts the • International Law
ACTOR 21st Century
challenges

A space for
members to Israel: Capital of Jerusalem
VENUE manifest their
opinions and
perspectives
 FUNCTIONS OF UN
1. To maintain international peace and security
2. To protect human rights
3. To deliver humanitarian aid.
4. To promote sustainable development
5. To uphold international law.
 CHALLENGES OF UN

1. Veto power of the five permanent members of the Security Council

2. Police power to regulate actions of the member states and enforce orders
and decisions

3. The growing number of “problems without passprt”

Is the state still relevant amid globalization of
governance?
No intergovernmental organization if there are no states.

International and multinational agreements are designed by the state

and propelled by the initiatives that they undertake.

Bertucci & Alberti (2014)

Sovereignty has not been diminished for the state is the source of
cooperation and concerted action among the states & represents the
greater exercise of their sovereignty.

Bertucci & Alberti (2014)