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Global governance refers to transnational networks, institution building, norm entrepreneurship, regime creation and the management of global change. It covers many issues, such as women's rights, human rights, development, democratisation, the environment, security and investments. It has worked out some recent achievements include the treaty banning landmines, the Kyoto climate convention, the international criminal court, the World Trade Organisation, and [...]

Globalisation and global governance will go on with or without the UN. Global governance has so far reflected mainly the interests of Western societies, but the UN, a confederation of 192 states (by June 28, 2006), has the potential to make it truly global. It has the potentiality to ensure that the ideas, norms and rules, which underpin global governance, [...]

All theories of globalization have been put hereunder in eight categories: liberalism, political realism, Marxism, constructivism, postmodernism, feminism , Trans-formationalism and eclecticism. Each one of them carries several variations. 1. Theory of Liberalism: Liberalism sees the process of globalisation as market-led extension of modernisation. At the most elementary level, it is a result of 'natural' human desires for economic welfare [...]