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Everywhere we can see the impact of things foreign and far away. People
everywhere feel vulnerable to global economic and political forces. But how do
these things threaten us and what levers are available to respond? So much about
global society remains obscure. What holds it together? How much is chaos, how
much system? How are we governed at the global level? Urgent issues implicating
people and places across the globe seem to call out for a coordinated global
response. How might we aspire to govern?
The local—and diverse—impact of faraway things makes a global response to
them difficult, even when it seems most necessary. Although the economic crisis is
‘‘global,’’ it is felt differently by each person and each nation. Just as the costs and
opportunities of climate change will fall unevenly across the planet. This disconnect
between local and global and the diverse distribution of gains and losses
ensures that many significant issues will be solved neither by one city or nation or
corporation alone, nor by the United Nations and the routines of global summitry.
We might conclude that improved ‘‘global governance’’ is the answer: a diffuse
global public policy capacity to aggregate interests, resolve conflicts, manage
risks, address common problems, and promote prosperity. International law might
well be the material from which such a capacity might be wrought. Intellectuals
and policy professionals have ploughed these fields for more than a century,
imagining and promoting international law as a tool for global governance. |
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