3.4 Global Governance

• What global governance is
• Guiding principles of global governance for a sustainable society
• Key areas of global governance
• Importance of global governance
• The role of the United Nations in fostering global governance
• Emerging issues and opportunities in global governance

• identify the guiding principles for global governance for a sustainable society
• illustrate key areas in global governance that guarantee stable global trends
• examine the importance of global governance
• explore emerging issues and possible opportunities in global governance
• recognise the importance of good global governance

“Which activities are significant in promoting global governance?”

“What is the role of the UN in fostering global governance?”

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1. Global governance: principles, areas and importance
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   What global governance is, the principles that should guide it, the areas it covers, and the role of the UN.
2. Emerging issues and opportunities in global governance
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   The new problems global governance must handle, the reforms Africa seeks, and the opportunities that come with both.
3. What global governance is, and is not
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   Why there is no world government, what states build instead, and why rules with no police behind them work at all.
4. The guiding principles
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   Sovereign equality, rule of law, transparency, participation, accountability and sustainability - and the tension at the centre of the system.
5. Peace and security
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   The escalating tools of collective security, Kenya's part in peacekeeping, and why the Security Council so often stalls.
6. Trade and the economy
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   The WTO, IMF, World Bank, regional bodies and credit ratings - what each does and why nearly every criticism is about who decides.
7. Health as global governance
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   Why no country can protect itself alone against disease, what the international health system does, and where it failed.
8. Climate: the hardest problem in global governance
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   Why the people who caused the problem and those who suffer most are not the same, and what "common but differentiated responsibility" means.
9. How the United Nations is put together
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   General Assembly, Security Council, Court, Secretariat and agencies - and which of them can actually bind a state.
10. Why it is hard, and what a citizen does
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    Four structural difficulties, four things an individual can actually do, and the answer to the inquiry question.