Global Law and Global Governance: The UN's Role in Filling Gaps

Ramesh Thakur; Thomas Weiss

doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199332304.003.0027

Global Law and Global Governance: The UN's Role in Filling Gaps

Ramesh Thakur, Thomas Weiss

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This chapter makes a case for global governance, i.e. collective problem-solving arrangements for challenges and threats that are beyond the capacity of a single state to address. It begins by examining the notion of global governance before parsing five “gaps” (knowledge, normative, policy, institutional, and compliance) in contemporary global governance that are the most insightful way to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the UN's past, present, and future roles. It then discusses the 2004 tsunami and global climate change to illustrate how this analytical lens works when examining a specific event and an issue-area.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence: Global Trends: Law, Policy & Justice
Editors	M. Cherif Bassiouni, Joanna Gomula, Paolo Mengozzi, John G. Merrils, Rafael Niet
Place of Publication	New York, USA
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	571-592
Volume	1
ISBN (Print)	9780199332304
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199332304.003.0027
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Global Law and Global Governance: The UN's Role in Filling Gaps. / Thakur, Ramesh; Weiss, Thomas.
The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence: Global Trends: Law, Policy & Justice. ed. / M. Cherif Bassiouni, Joanna Gomula, Paolo Mengozzi, John G. Merrils, Rafael Niet. Vol. 1 New York, USA: Oxford University Press , 2013. p. 571-592.

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