Global Governance: An Enforcement of the Powerful in the Global Arena

Globalization has produced winners and losers and the international institutions created to govern the process have and continue to further the interests of the winners. While actors who have been able to engage fully with the process have benefitted, others have not done so well and in most cases have been left worse off. This is as a result of the interplay of power in the global system which generates unequal social privileges for parties involved. The argument of this paper is that global governance is simply an enforcement of the powerful in the global arena which has led to the production of winners and losers in the globalization process.

Any discussion of global governance should start with an understanding of globalization which has lead to the changing nature of the fabric of the international society hence the need for global governance. While there are varying definitions of globalization in the available literature, there seem to a convergence on globalization as the widening, deepening and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness . Society has become interconnected in such a way that what happens in one society greatly influences what happens in the other. Current events in the Middle East give credence to this fact. The world has increasingly become interconnected especially in the economic, political, environmental and technological spheres. Economic integration has mostly intensified worldwide as a result of trade liberalization which has led to the reduction of trade barriers and the increased movement goods and people across borders. Technological advancements have also led to increased communication among people of various cultures and societies leading to a transnational spread of ideas. Additionally aware...

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