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Lecture 1: Introduction to International AdministrationWhat is global governance?
Governance is collective efforts by states and an increasing variety of non-state actors to identify,
understand and address various issues in today’s turbulent world.
- Government suggests one single coherent world order!
Why is there a need for global governance?
● Transboundary problems: problems that reach across borders
● States cannot solve transboundy problems by themselves and need international cooperation
● Selection of most pressing transboundary problems are:
- Climate change
- Financial markets
- Terrorism
How has global governance evolved?
● Globalization
- Historical process involving a fundamental shift in the spatial scale of human social
organization that links distant communities and expands the reach of power
● Technological change
- Revolutions in ICT, logistics, transport
● End of Cold War
- Disintegration of the bipolar system and of allied blocks
● Expanding transnationalism
- Global spread of social movements, ideologies and regimes
Multiple types of actors in governance
State sovereignty
● Authority over own territory and people
● Monopoly on legitimate use of force within their borders
● Determination of domestic policies
● Free from interference of international authorities
● Equality between states within the international system
● International state system became formalizes with the Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Limits to sovereignty
● States differ in power and capacities
● Increasing interdependencies of economics, internet etc.
● International organizations and networks for cooperation
, Intergovernmental organizations
● Organizations with states as members
● Organizations created through agreements between states
● Aim: address internal problems
● Organizations with their own infrastructure
Non-governmental organizations
● Private voluntary organizations
● Members are individuals or associations
● Active ar grassroots within states as well as INGOs
● Organized within networks, links with IGOs
● Aim:
- Advocacy
- Disaster relief
- Monitoring
Transnational networks
● Regularly interacting governmental and nongovernmental actors outside national boundaries
● Transnational networks can act as actors
● Network administration by one of the organizations in the network
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