GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OR A NEW IMPERIUM: WHICH IS IT TO BE?

Author: RAMPHAL SHRIDATH  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 1465-4008

Source: The Round Table, Vol.369, Iss.1, 2003-04, pp. : 213-219

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Abstract

In 1995 a Commission on Global Governance sought greater international cooperation and a deeper commitment to consensus to replace a preoccupation with political, economic and military power. It urged a series of reforms on the United Nations and a step towards the management of global economic interdependence. In response there was resistance and global governance being relegated to the periphery instead of being at the heart of globalization. In the wake of 11 September 2001, the writer, who was Co-Chair of the Commission, examines the approach to international affairs of the United States of America, and questions whether just when the world most needs a culture of globalism, it may not be headed towards a new era of unipolar dominion.