ATS2624 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Global Governance
25 May 2018
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Global Governance – Lecture – Week 1
- global governance - emergence - attempt to govern intertwined global economy
- the issues created as a result of the spread of capitalism
- process of organising and managing the world - states and a plethora of other
actors - institutions, NGOs etc
- what world gov we actually have
- persistence of liberalism within global governance
- main ideology that calls for the need of global governance
- realism
• contradiction in terms
• states, institutions, power relations
• other actors peripheral
• relations between states via institutions
• most powerful states create insitutiitions to serve their interests
- liberalism
• agree with many realist assumptions
•
o states are main actors
• potential for cooperation
• networked governance
•
o much of global governance happens below
- constructivism
• states interests and identities are not set in stone - socially constructed
and shaped by institutions
• institutions can be independent of states
• change behaviour and norms of states
• still accepts orthodox assumptions
- critical theories
• broader array of actors
• global governance as a system of unequal power relations
•
o classes and genders
• a site of contesting/challenging power relations
• Neo-Gramscian and gender relations
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Document Summary
Global governance - emergence - attempt to govern intertwined global economy. The issues created as a result of the spread of capitalism. Process of organising and managing the world - states and a plethora of other actors - institutions, ngos etc. Main ideology that calls for the need of global governance. Realism contradiction in terms states, institutions, power relations: other actors peripheral, most powerful states create insitutiitions to serve their interests relations between states via institutions. Liberalism: agree with many realist assumptions, states are main actors, potential for cooperation, networked governance, much of global governance happens below. Constructivism states interests and identities are not set in stone - socially constructed and shaped by institutions institutions can be independent of states change behaviour and norms of states still accepts orthodox assumptions.
