What kind of activity is global governance? What do all of the many sectoral forms of global governance - of the planetary environment, of global finance and global health - have in common? Moving beyond sector-specific studies, this book outlines the fundamentals of global governance in eight chapter-length propositions.

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JIM WHITMAN is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK. He is Series Editor of the Palgrave Global Issues series

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Preface Acknowledgements Glossary Global Governance: Of, By and For Whom? Global Governance in Most Senses and in Most Cases Will Link the Local and the Global; and the Individual and the National/international Realms The Sum of all Global Governances Is Not Likely to be Entirely Coherent or to Avoid Competitive or Antagonistic Relationships Global Governance Needs to be Relational, Not Merely Technocratic Although Global Governance Arrangements Concern State Behaviours to Some Degree and Rely on State Compliance and Furtherance, the Regimes Are Not Only About States Global Governance Will Rely on Normative Acceptance rather than Lego-political Enforcement Global Governance Systems Must Deal With or Be Able to Accommodate Large-scale Violations/disruptions Global Governance Must Be Highly Adaptive in Respect of Changing Human Circumstances However Extensive the Coverage, Global Governance Arrangements Will Remain Aspirational to Some Degree The Human Rights Regime as Global Governance Index