A Contemporary Concept of Global Governance
A Contemporary Concept of Global Governance

Summary/Abstract: This article examines current academic thinking of the concept of ‘global governance’ and it describes some contemporary trends in the world in the building of an institutional architecture. World civil society has been confronted with the dramatic impact of global threats, including financial, rising oil prices, environmental degradation, civil wars, genocide, human rights’ violations, and the proliferation of nuclear and radiological weapons, as well as weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and, trans-national organized crime. All of these manifestations are buttressed with the complexity of existing international relations, and further supports the need to search for alternative approaches for a system of effective global governance. The necessity to investigate transformation of global governance has prompted the author to refer to ontological transformation of the above-mentioned concepts, and to attempt to connect global trends within the mechanisms of trans-national and national actors

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