Understanding Legitimacy in Global Governance

Book Abstract

Global governance or world governance is a movement towards political cooperation among transnational actors, aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affect more than one state or region. Institutions of global governance?the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, the World Bank, etc.?tend to have limited or demarcated power to enforce compliance. The modern question of world governance exists in the context of globalization and globalizing regimes of power: politically, economically and culturally. In response to the acceleration of worldwide interdependence, both between human societies and between humankind and the biosphere, the term ?global governance?may name the process of designating laws, rules, or regulations intended for a global scale.