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The post-Cold War period, marked by the intensification of globalization and a new world disorder, has triggered an intense and growing interest in governance at all levels. The interest in what can be called ‘summative global governance’ is held by scholars and practitioners, by state and non-state actors, by public and private institutions and by licit and even illicit groups. This chapter is concerned with global governance as a summative phenomenon and the extent to which globalizing dynamics are forcing us to reconceptualize the governance of the globe.
Global order is conceived…[as] a single set of arrangements even though these are not causally linked into a single coherent array of patterns. The organic whole that comprises the present or future global order is organic only in the sense that its diverse actors are all claimants upon the same earthbound resources and all of them must cope with the same environmental conditions, noxious and polluted as these may be.1
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Knight, W.A. (2009). Global Governance as a Summative Phenomenon. In: Whitman, J. (eds) Palgrave Advances in Global Governance. Palgrave Advances. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245310_9
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