Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Tatiana Carayannis ◽  
Thomas G. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Third ◽  
Original Argument

If past is prelude, the most creative and imaginative rethinking of the contemporary bases for international cooperation will emanate from the Third United Nations. The first section briefly parses it to provide the working vocabulary for subsequent chapters. The original argument appeared in a journal whose title, Global Governance, reflects the move away from the older notion of states and their creation in the form of IGOs as the only substantial pillars of world order. That evolution is explained in the second section before briefly summarizing the book.

BRICS and Global Governance: Will the Grouping be able to Reform the United Nations Security Council?

2021 ◽  
pp. 002088172110294
Author(s):  
Francesco Petrone
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Security Council ◽  
World Order ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Emerging Powers

This article analyses the role played by the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) countries within the context of the reform of international institutions, in primis the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). In recent years, the new emerging powers, among which the BRICS occupy a central position, have instigated a paradigm shift in international relations and global governance (GG). Furthermore, some scholars argue that the BRICS could inaugurate a new world order. Since the United Nations (UN) is one of the institutions in which these changes need to be more broadly reflected due to its global projection, it is doubtful if the BRICS will be able to bring about its reform. In fact, several debates were conducted about the need to reform the UN and, in particular, the Security Council (SC). In order to do this, the article examines the interests of the BRICS countries, within the group itself, and their vision for the UNSC. Only a common vision within the group could have specific effects in reforming the UNSC, thus giving a new shape to GG, which may not be possible. There are several obstacles from within the BRICS itself in this regard, despite the fact that during their summits, they have repeatedly called for the UN reforms.

scholarly journals Fully-automated liberalism? Blockchain technology and international cooperation in an anarchic world

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Reinsberg
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
World Order ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Credible Commitments ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Decentralized Governance ◽  
The Cost

Abstract A recent wave of scholarship attests that the liberal world order is under threat. Although there is disagreement about the underlying reasons for this diagnosis, there are few attempts to further our understanding of how the liberal order can be reinvigorated. This paper probes the potential of blockchain technology to promote international cooperation. Blockchain technology is a data structure that enables global governance stakeholders to establish decentralized governance systems which provide high-powered incentives for enhanced cooperation. By outlining the contours of a blockchain-based global governance system for climate policy, the paper illustrates that blockchain technology holds theoretical promise to foster cooperation in three ways: leveraging new sources of information through blockchain-based prediction markets; allaying coordinating problems through reducing the cost of transactions for side payments; and allowing states and other global governance actors to make more credible commitments given guaranteed execution of blockchain-enabled smart contracts. By empowering local knowledge holders and non-state actors that traditionally lacked the means to coordinate efforts to influence global politics, blockchain technology also promises to advance an international order based on liberal values. In actuality, however, emerging blockchain-based global governance systems will fall short of the libertarian ideal of ‘fully-automated liberalism’ as their design and operation will remain under the shadow of power.

The Rise of International Regime Complexity

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 329-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen J. Alter ◽  
Kal Raustiala
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
World Order ◽  
First Century ◽  
International Agreement ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
International Regime ◽  
Regime Complex ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Twenty First Century

The signature feature of twenty-first-century international cooperation is arguably not the regime but the regime complex. A regime complex is an array of partially overlapping and nonhierarchical institutions that includes more than one international agreement or authority. The institutions and agreements may be functional or territorial in nature. International regime complexity refers to international political systems of global governance that emerge because of the coexistence of rule density and regime complexes. This article highlights insights and questions that emerge from the last 15 years of scholarship on the politics of international regime complexity, explaining why regime complexes arise, what factors sustain them, and the range of political effects regime complexity creates. Our conclusion explains why, in a post-American world order, the trend of greater international regime complexity will likely accelerate.

Plan of Ecological Platform for Global Enterprise Cloud Market and Global Network Security

2019 ◽  
pp. 154-176
Author(s):  
Shi (Jessee) Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Network Security ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Network ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

This chapter introduces how the global economy could change through networking and puts forward a plan of an ecological platform for a global enterprise cloud market. The chapter introduces some theories and concepts about ecological platforms and how to design this ecological platform. Also, is a call for some entities in the world for creating this ecological platform. At last, this chapter puts forth some ideas about global network security through countermeasures for international cooperation in cyberspace global governance and the function of the United Nations to promote the implementation of global network security.

scholarly journals Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-300
Author(s):  
Jeremy J. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Biological Species ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Anthropogenic Forcing ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Original Argument ◽  
The Right

Abstract In 2019 several funerals were held for glaciers. If enough glaciers die, could they go extinct? Is there geologic extinction? Yes. This article develops three arguments to support this claim. The first revisits Georges Cuvier’s original argument for extinction and its reliance on geology, especially glaciers. Retracing connections to glaciers and the narrowing of extinction to biological species in the nineteenth century, the author argues that anthropogenic forcing on how the Earth system functions—the Anthropocene—warrants rethinking extinction geologically. The second argument examines the specificity of ice loss and multiple practices responding to this loss: from art exhibits at United Nations climate change meetings to anticolonial claims for the right to be cold. The third argument consolidates a theme built across the article regarding how Isabelle Stengers’s notion of ecologies of practices provides an approach to geologic extinction that recognizes both relational and nonrelational loss.

Multilateralism and the Changing World Order

2018 ◽  
pp. 780-796
Author(s):  
Amitava Acharya
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Other ◽  
Drivers Of Change ◽  
The West ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One

This chapter argues that the traditional conception of multilateralism that underpinned the United Nations at its birth is under serious challenge, which comes from a global shift in power and ideas. The hitherto Western dominance of both is rapidly eroding. But the emerging world order is better termed as a ‘multiplex’ rather than a ‘multipolar’ world. The key drivers of change include the growth of regionalism, the proliferation of non-state actors, the decline of the West, the erosion of US primacy, the rise of non-Western powers, and the increasing fragmentation of traditional UN-based global governance mechanisms. In this world, the UN is not obsolete but has to come to terms with rapid and far-reaching changes that call for a new approach to universalism, one that accommodates the conflicting pressures of cultural and political diversity, on the one hand, and economic and functional interdependence, on the other.

Somethin’ about Scandinavia: Danish Shorts on the Post-war International Scene

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
The Third ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Post War ◽  
Nordic Cooperation

Building on the picture of post-war Anglo-Danish documentary collaboration established in the previous chapter, this chapter examines three cases of international collaboration in which Dansk Kulturfilm and Ministeriernes Filmudvalg were involved in the late 1940s and 1950s. They Guide You Across (Ingolf Boisen, 1949) was commissioned to showcase Scandinavian cooperation in the realm of aviation (SAS) and was adopted by the newly-established United Nations Film Board. The complexities of this film’s production, funding and distribution are illustrative of the activities of the UN Film Board in its first years of operation. The second case study considers Alle mine Skibe (All My Ships, Theodor Christensen, 1951) as an example of a film commissioned and funded under the auspices of the Marshall Plan. This US initiative sponsored informational films across Europe, emphasising national solutions to post-war reconstruction. The third case study, Bent Barfod’s animated film Noget om Norden (Somethin’ about Scandinavia, 1956) explains Nordic cooperation for an international audience, but ironically exposed some gaps in inter-Nordic collaboration in the realm of film.

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