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To anticipate the prospects for global governance in the decades ahead is to discern powerful tensions, profound contradictions, and perplexing paradoxes. It is to search for order in disorder, for coherence in contradiction, and for continuity in change. It is to confront processes that mask both growth and decay. It is to look for authorities that are obscure, boundaries that are in flux, and systems of rule that are emergent. And it is to experience hope embedded in despair.
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Rosenau, J.N. (2009). Governance in the Twenty-First Century. In: Whitman, J. (eds) Palgrave Advances in Global Governance. Palgrave Advances. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245310_2
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