Postrzeganie stosunków międzynarodowych przez pryzmat zarządzania globalnego
Perceiving international relations from the angle of global governance

Summary/Abstract: The term ‘global governance’, although imprecise, understood in a variety of manners and applied in diverse contexts, has been present in the literature on international relations since the end of the 20th century. It expresses the intuition of numerous researchers who follow the transformations of the changing international reality and believe that as a result thereof the manner of governing international processes (principles, standards, procedures) have been changing considerably. The paper presents the basic notions and perceptions of the contemporary international relations which are specifi c to the global governance perspective. The subject is introduced with the presentation of global governance sources and the accompanying terminological and methodological disputes. The notion of authority is discussed, which occupies a central position in the literature on global governance, thus being a point of departure to the discussion on the new confi guration of powers on the international stage which is being shaped as a result of globalisation processes. New forms of cooperation between informal circles and interest groups acting for solving global problems, which have not been present before, are a result of those processes. Their activity goes beyond the borders of countries, thus becoming a basis for formulating forecasts on the arising “global civil society”. The fi nal part of the paper presents the most signifi cant weaknesses, as well as moot and arguable points in the interpretation of the contemporary international relations presented by global governance.

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