ATS2624 Chapter Notes - Chapter Prescribed : Global Governance, Hard Power, Hegemony
25 May 2018
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Global Governance - Readings – Week 2 – realism and liberalism
Reading Questions:
1. How do realists conceptualise global governance?
2. How do liberals conceptualise global governance?
3. What are the key similarities between realist and liberal conceptions of global
governance?
4. Who are the key actors in networked governance?
international organisation and global governance - realism
- according to a realist perspective the term IO is a reference to the Westphalian
system comprised of sovereign states - 93.
• term IO is a reference to the specific patterns of order that can arise from
great power self-interests and interaction.
- power capabilities become the central means within anarchy of obtaining self-
interests and defending against other states - 93.
- realism explains periods of organisation, order and management since
Westphalia by focusing on the interactions and efforts of relatively powerful
states.
- patterns of international organisation are contingent on the interests of
powerful states
- global governance a result of the relative power and ongoing interactions
among powerful states.
- insistent that states and power remain fundamental to the subject of IO
- global governance - defined as the management of this decentralised web of
interdependent transnational actors through public-private partnerships,
networks, and institutions that enable increasing cooperation despite the
anarchic environment. -94
• however from a realist perspective - the term global governance
misdirects attention from deeper structures of power the shape the
patterns and forms of global organisation by implying that these activities
occur independently of states.
• realism insists that states remain the primary actors in international
affairs - suspicious of the roles of institutions - global governance is a
phenomenon contingent on power politics - 94
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o institutions are viewed as created by states as a means to achieve
their interests - do not have an independent impact outside of
states - 95
- polarity
• allows for forms of cooperation, organisation and order.
• relative distribution of capabilities in the international system during
particular time periods.
• multipolar system can produce two different forms of IO and global
governance - 95
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o lack of revision states and in which defensive weaponry has the
advantage - more formal, permanent and negotiated modes of
organisation among the great powers are likely.
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Document Summary
Global governance - readings week 2 realism and liberalism. Power capabilities become the central means within anarchy of obtaining self- interests and defending against other states - 93. Realism explains periods of organisation, order and management since. Westphalia by focusing on the interactions and efforts of relatively powerful states. Patterns of international organisation are contingent on the interests of powerful states. Global governance a result of the relative power and ongoing interactions among powerful states. Insistent that states and power remain fundamental to the subject of io. Global governance - defined as the management of this decentralised web of interdependent transnational actors through public-private partnerships, networks, and institutions that enable increasing cooperation despite the anarchic environment. 96: promotion of stability benefits other states - as well as the hegemon. 99 this array/web of actors is contingent on the authority and legitimacy of the state. Nsas are important because they allow states to more efficiently achieve their state interests - 99.
