How Does Global Governance Differ from World Government?

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How does Global Governance differ from World Government? (15) Governance refers to the various ways in which social life is coordination. Government simply in this case, being one of the actors involved in the coordination. The terms Global Governance itself, refers to the facilitation of various processes surrounding decision making and cooperation on a global scale. This happened through multilateral systems of regulation. When one contemplates the emergence of global governance, the UN and its various bodies, together with institutions of global economic governance such as the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF stand at the centre of the emergence. Rather than imposing their will on individual states like Supranationalist institutions do, whereby there is a transfer of sovereignty, the processes of intergovernmentalist bodies provide a framework for the development of intergovernmental relationships, whereby state sovereignty remains intact. Global Governance thus reflects the growing acceptance of global interdependence. Furthermore, Global Governance does not only involve intergovernmental bodies, but further includes the participation of non-governmental actors such as NGO’s, TNCs (Transnational corporations), global capital markets and citizens’ movements. World Government on the other hand refers to the idea of a centralised authority acting through a single, unified, supranational body. Such government would involve the establishment of a monopoly of the use of force worldwide, as well as the surrendering of sovereignty by individual states. This is due to Global Governments supranationalist form, differing from the Intergovernmentalist Global Governance whereby no sovereignty is pooled/transferred. Most versions of World Government are based on the idea of world federalism. This would translate into a system whereby central authority is vested with

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