The Fundamentals of Global Governance

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Global governance: of, by and for whom?....Pages 1-17
Global governance in most senses and in most cases will link the local and the global; and the individual and the national/international realms....Pages 18-33
The sum of all global governances is not likely to be entirely coherent or to avoid competitive or antagonistic relationships....Pages 34-49
Global governance needs to be relational, not merely technocratic....Pages 50-63
Although global governance arrangements concern state behaviours to some degree and rely on state compliance and furtherance, the regimes are not only about states....Pages 64-78
Global governance will rely on normative acceptance rather than lego-political enforcement....Pages 79-94
Global governance systems must deal with or be able to accommodate large-scale violations/disruptions....Pages 95-111
Global governance must be highly adaptive in respect of changing human circumstances....Pages 112-126
However extensive the coverage, global governance arrangements will remain aspirational to some degree....Pages 127-138
The human rights regime as global governance....Pages 139-159
Back Matter....Pages 160-187