Who Is In Charge Here?
Our reviewer assesses how world gatherings can contribute to global governance January–February 2005
Is there such a thing as global governance? It is a pretty ambitious concept. We have a world with a lone superpower that, almost reluctantly, finds itself at the centre of most international events. There are global markets, global financial flows, global information and technology that can ignore traditional national sovereignty. We have powerful multinational corporations whose loyalty is primarily to shareholders and their own senior…