1. Global Governance, Democracy, and Justice

2. Global Governance (def.)
A key arena for the promotion and contestation of globalization.
Collective efforts to identify, understand or address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual States to solve.
These efforts constitute a complex of formal and informal institutions, mechanisms, relationships, and processes between and among States, markets, citizens and organizations.
Global governance is not global government!
Legal authority
Coercive power
Efforts are not centralized and coordinated.

3. Good governance
Legitimacy: government should have the consent of the governed.
Participation
Representation
Accountability: ensuring transparency, being answerable for actions and media freedom
competence: effective policymaking, implementation and service delivery
respect for law and protection of human rights

4. Is global governance ‘good governance’?
Imprint of liberalism: it promotes and advances the project of a liberal world order.
Global markets, rule of law, democracy, human rights
Global markets prevail over other liberal values
Legitimacy
Global governance is more horizontal than hierarchical
Complex interdependence
Importance of soft power
Involves cooperation between local, national, global agencies
Considerable involvement of representatives of transnational civil society
Not all actors have an equal voice or input.

5. Is global governance ‘good’ governance?
Competence:
Failings in the provision of global public goods, i.e. environmental security.
Global institutions have no authority or powers to ensure compliance. Formal and informal veto power of dominant states.
Global interest is trumped by national interests
Accountability:
Transparency: network decision-making
Accountable to whom
MNCs to shareholders
IGOs to states and other IGOs
INGOs to other INGOs

6. Contesting Globalization
Mass protest: Global anti-capitalist and global justice movements
World Social Forum
Single Issue Campaigns:
Jubilee 2000
WSF meets annually at the same time with the WEF in Davos, Switzerland. Forum for reflection and exchange of experiences for global justice.
Jubilee 2000: cancellation of third world debt. Bono of the U2 group one of the leaders