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While ambiguity exists over the concept and its usage, interdependence is central for explaining the nature and dynamics of international organization io, as well as international relations more broadly conceived. Intergovernmentalism versus nongovernmentalism in world politics. Global governance is growing rapidly to meet the compounding challenges of a globalized 21stcentury world. International organizations as orchestrators edited by. A very important and interesting book, this is a firstrate collection of contributions by some of the bestknown analysts of global politics on the implications of global governance in the new world order. Governance is the sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs.
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Global governance has been defined in many and often very different ways. In 2004, the number had risen to almost 200,000 references and by early 2008, the world wide web lists well over halfamillion pages that include the term global governance. Despite its relevance to key processes underlying the major public policy questions of our age, the contours of global governance remain contested and elusive. Global governance is must reading for anyone concerned withthe workings of the mysterious spiderweb of institutions by which the international system tries to manage the rampaging forces of global environmental change. A comparative perspective, international studies quarterly 52 2008. He is an internationally leading scholar of global institutions and organizations in the sustainability domain. Global governance and the united nations ba simon oerding term paper advanced seminar politics international politics topic.
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