WHAT IS

GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE ?
  Most agree it is an
unfolding response to

GLOBALIZATION
LIBERALIsm
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
 IS THE MANAGEMENT OF GLOBAL
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SPACE IN
THE ABSENCE OF A GLOBAL STATE.
SOLOMON 2006: 327

 CREATES THE CONDITIONS FOR

ORDERED RULE AND COLLECTIVE
ACTION.
STOKER 1998:22
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE ALSO
INVOLVES:

 EFFORTS BRING MORE ORDERLY

AND RELIABLE RESPONSES TO
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES
THAT GO BEYOND STATES TO
ADDRESS INDIVIDUALLY.
 ‘IS NOT NORMATIVE OR PRESCRIPTIVE AND
PROVIDES A DESCRIPTION OF REAL
PROCESSES OF CHANGE IN THE
INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM.’
ROSENAU, SMITH & CZEMPIEL1992

‘NOT FOUNDED ON DOMINATIONS BUT UPON

ACCOMODATIONS’
COMMISION ON GLOBAL GOVERNACE
1995 (2-3)

‘IN THE WORLD [NOT] OF THE WORLD. THE

LATTER IMPLIES A CENTRAL AUTHORITY THAT
IS DOING THE GOVERNING. AN IMPLICATION
THAT CLEARLY NO BASIS IN FACT.’
ROSERIAU 2008
 RATIONALE
BENIGN, MULTI RESPONDS TO
LAYERED CHANGES CONCERNED WITH
MANAGEMENT ACCELERATD BY LIBERAL PEACH
SYSTEM GLOBALIZATION

COMPOSITION
FROM INTERNATIONAL LIBERAL INSTITUTIONS, PRIVATE AND
PUBLIC.

CHARACTERISTICS
NEUTRAL AND TECHNOCRATIC AND NO POWER SINCENO
PARTIAL FUNCTIONAL AUTHORITY
POWER IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
TAKES MAINLY MATERIAL FORM;

o HARD AND SOFT DIPLOMATIC

FORM
o MILITARY POWER

o ECONOMIC POWER

o MEASURABLE AND QUANTIFIABLE

FEMINism
GLOBAL GOVERNACE INVOLVES:
 THE EXPRESSION OF MASCULINE POWER THROUGH
HEGEMONIC BELIEFS AND INSTITUTIONS

POWER IN POWER POWER OVER POWER TO

THROUGH
PATRIARCHAL
HIERARCHIES
AND VALUES IN
INTERNATIONAL
SYSTEM INTERNATIONAL WEAKER DISCIPLINE
INSTITUTIONS ACTORS AND PUNISH
MASCULINE
BIASES IN
STATE AND
STATE SYSTEM

CONDONING OF
VIOLENCE
CONSTRUCTIVISM
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
o COMBINES AND PROJECTS IDEOLOGICAL
AND MATERIAL POWER.
o THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM IS NOT
SOMETHING OUT THERE LIKE THE SOLAR
SYSTEM.
o IT DOES NOT EXIST ON IT’S OWN. IT EXISTS
ONLY AS AN INTERSUBJECTIVE SHARED
AWARENESS AMONG PEOPLE: IN THAT SENSE
THE SYSTEM IS CONSTITUTED BY IDEAS NOT
BY MATERIAL FORCES.
o IT IS A HUMAN INTERVENTION OR CREATION
NOT OF PHYSICAL OR MATERIAL KIND BUT OF
A PURELY INTELLECTUAL AND IDENTIONAL
KIND.

o IT IS A SET OF IDEAS, A BODY OF

THOUGH, A SYSTEM OF NORMS, WHICH
HAS BEEN ARRANGED BY CERTAIN
PEOPLE AT A PARTICULAR TIME AND
PLACE.
CONTRUCTIVIST REJECT CLAIMS OF NEUTRALITY
AND IMPARTIALITY CLAIM IT PROJECTS A
DOMINANT, PRIVELEGED IDEAL IDENTIFIES
LIBERAL/ NEOLIBERAL HEGEMONY GLOBALLY.
PLANETARY LIFE ORGANIZED AROUND
LIBERAL BELIEFS

 DEMOCRACY, CAPITALISM, INDIVIDUALISM FOR THE

GREATER GOOD.

 LIBERAL WAYS ARE THE FINAL AND BEST WAYS.

LIBERAL PROPONENTS PRODUCE TRUTHS ABOUT
LIBERALISM AND DECLARE THEM AS ABSOLUTES.

 NO VIABLE ALTERNATIVE TO LIBERALISM

 INDIVIDUALISM IS THE ONLY FREEDOM

 CAPITALISM WILL CREATE EQUITABLE GROWTHS

 RESOURCE DEPLETION IS SUSTAINABLE THROUGH

TECHNOLOGICAL ADAPTATION
LIBERAL PROPONENTS PROJECT AND PROTECT THESE
CLAIMS
 LIBERAL HEGEMONY PROJECTED THROUGH INSTITUTIONS
(TRADE REGIMES,IGOs), PROCESSES (GOVERNANCE),
MATERIALS (WEALTH, CONSUMPTION) AND
PROPAGANDAS.

POWER AS PRODUCTIVE

 THE ABILITY TO REPRESENT A SUBJECTIVE,

INCOMPLETE AND PARTISAN CLAIM AS OBJECTIVE,
ABSOLUTE, AND NEUTRAL TRUTH.

INVISIBLE POWER
 ‘ANONYMOUS AUTHORITY’- HARD TO GRASP POWER AS
INVISIBLE.
IF IT’S NOT EVIDENT IN A PERSON OR A
STATE SO POWER IN GLOBAL
GOVERNACE IS;
LIBERALISM

 NEUTRAL AND IMPARTIAL, MATERIAL

ONLY
FEMINISM
 MASCULINE VALUES AND PREFERENCES,
PROJECTED THROUGH MASCULINE- DOMINATED
INSTITUTIONS, TO CREATE A VIOLENT, GENDERED
WORLD

CONSTRUCTIVISM
 COMPOSED OF LIBERAL VALUES EXPRESSED
THROUGH INSTITUTIONS STRUCTURED TO
REPRODUCE LIBERALISM AND DISCIPLINE NON-
CONFORMITY.
GOVERN(MENTALITY) AND POWER
OVER LIFE

 AN IDEA THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS A

RATIONALITY GOVERNMENT MENTALITY

GOVERNMENT
+
MENTALITY
=
GOVERNMENTALITY
 A REASON AND PURPOSE
• TO MANAGE LIFE WITH POWER FROM
CENTR DISSEMINATED THROUGH
NATIONWIDE OUTLETS OF CAPILLARY
NETWORKS, NATIONAL LIFE MANAGED
THROUGH SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, JOB
CENTRES, PRISONS, COUNCILS, POLICE ETC.

RATIONALITY OF GOVERNMENT IS TO
EXERT POWER OVER LIFE. DISCIPLINES AND
PUNISHES IN ORDER TO GENERATE
COMPLIANCE OF IDEOLOGY.
GLOBAL GOVERNMENTALITY AS:
(LIBERAL POWER OVER PLANETARY LIFE)

• SOURCE OF GLOBAL POWER IS

NEOLIBERAL HEGEMONY, POWER
DISSEMINATED THROUGH LOCAL AND
GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS OR CAPILLARY
NETWORKS. INTERNATIONAL LIFE
MANAGED THROUGH INTERNATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS. (UN,WB,EU,WTO,
STANDARD & POOR ETC)
 POWER EXISTS, SO WHAT DOES IT DO,
BEYOND LIBERAL/REALIST IMPRESSIONS?

 NOT LIMITED TO SIMPLE DOMINANCE AND

DIRECT VIOLENCE

 NOT LIMITED TO MATERIAL EXPRESSION

OF WEALTH AND HIERARCHIES

 NOT LIMITED BY GEOGRAPHIES AND

BOUNDARIES

 IDEOLOGICAL POWER INFLUENCES ALL

AND EVERYTHING
CONCLUSION
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IS TECHNICAL, MATERIAL
AND IDEOLOGICAL

CALCULATED MANAGEMENT OF LIFE

IT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE..
• IT REVEALS STRUCTURES, RULES, ACTORS
BEHIND INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENA
• DEMONSTRATES CAUSE AND EFFECT
• ALLOWS CULPABILITY TO BE IDENTIFIED
• HOLDS ACTORS, INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES
ACCOUNTS
• ALLOWS US TO SEE AND UNDERSTAND WHY
GOO AND BAD THINGS HAPPEN.
THANK YOU!