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Rethinking global governance? Complexity, authority, power, change

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posted on 2023-06-08, 19:26 authored by Thomas G Weiss, Rorden Wilkinson
Global governance remains notoriously slippery. While the term arose to describe change in the late twentieth century, its association with that specific moment has frozen it in time and deprived it of analytical utility. It has become an alternative moniker for international organizations, a descriptor for an increasingly crowded world stage, a call to arms, an attempt to control the pernicious aspects of globalization, and a synonym for world government. This article aims not to advance a theory of global governance but to highlight where core questions encourage us to go. A more rigorous conception should help us understand the nature of the contemporary phenomenon as well as look “backwards” and “forwards.” Such an investigation should provide historical insights as well as prescriptive elements to understand the kind of world order that we ought to be seeking and encourage us to investigate how that global governance could be realized.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

International Studies Quarterly

ISSN

0020-8833

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Issue

1

Volume

58

Page range

207-215

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  • International Relations Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-01-08

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-05-16

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-05-16

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