Enhancing global governance through regional integration.
Global Governance › Vol. 12 Nbr. 3, July 2006
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GLOBAL INSIGHTS
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Enhancing global governance through regional integration.
Global governance--governance for the world without world government--refers to cooperative problem-solving arrangements on a global plane. (1) These may be rules (laws, norms, codes of behavior) as well as constituted institutions and practices (formal and informal) to manage collective affairs by a variety of actors (state authorities, intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, private sector entities). Global governance thus refers to the complex of formal and informal institutions, mechanisms, relationships, and processes between and among states, markets, citizens, and organizations--both intergovernmental and nongovernmental--through which collective interests are articulated, rights and obligations are established, and differences are mediated. (2)
Such global governance faces a fundamental paradox. The policy authority for tackling global problems and mobilizing the necessary resources is vested primarily at the country level, in states, while the source and scale of the problems ...See the full content of this document
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