Global Governance: Why Bother?

Aoife O’Donoghue

Chapter 2 in Research Handbook on Global Governance, 2025, pp 13-27 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Chapter 2 considers the history of the use of the term ‘global governance’ across several languages and considers its emergence as a phrase in academic literature and among institutions. It examines the rationales behind definitions of global governance and whether they are exercises in rebranding existing structures or describing something new. It then goes on to consider democracy, representativeness and transparency, what these mean in the context of global governance, and the absence of all three in several regimes despite the use of language that suggests otherwise. It finishes with an exhortation towards a critical collective effort, which the book sets out to accomplish, to reconsider what global governance could mean and where it is just a fashionable turn of phrase.

Keywords: Global governance; Google Ngram; Democracy; Transparency; Representativeness; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789906325
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