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Emerging Powers and Emerging Trends in Global Governance
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Abstract In the 1990s, liberal optimism permeated the study and practice of international politics. International institutions were strengthened and the discourse and practice of global governance consolidated as a new approach to world affairs. Today, new powers are emerging in this institutionalized order.... view more
In the 1990s, liberal optimism permeated the study and practice of international politics. International institutions were strengthened and the discourse and practice of global governance consolidated as a new approach to world affairs. Today, new powers are emerging in this institutionalized order. New powers have changed the power relations that underpinned global governance and are also economically, politically, and culturally different from established powers. Against this backdrop, this article investigates the impacts emerging powers are having on global governance. It presents six major trends and outlines their implications for the new global governance currently taking shape. Because new powers are emerging in an already institutionalized order, the emerging global governance order is gradually growing out of the existing one. Emerging powers are rendering parts of global governance dysfunctional, layering onto it, complicating it, but not overthrowing it.... view less
Keywords
international politics; global governance; world order; international relations
Classification
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Free Keywords
BRICS; emerging powers; fragmentation; international institutions
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 483-502
Journal
Global governance: a review of multilateralism and international organizations, 23 (2017) 3
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/215866
ISSN
1942-6720
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications