Globalisation

Governmentalisation of Globalisation

Government Monopoly Power

Governmental jurisdiction over a defined sovereign domain is associated with the policy prerogative for public value, meaning the deliberate cultivation of policy outcomes that embody capability and leadership in the due execution of the apparatus' of government.

21st century statecraft situates the practice of government as a function of leveraged governance contingent to efficacious deployment of government monopoly power.

Liberal Ontogenesis

A liberal democratic heritage of the world system derives from variant forms of 'liberal ontogenesis' (rhetorical, epistemological, performative, and structural) (Odysseos, 2010). Liberalism is constituted by a global regime concerned with the production of knowledge and the reproduction of customs and norms such as to formulate a set of 'conditions of freedom' that are deemed critical to instititutional order.

Global Engagement

Multi-variant streams of globalisation engenders global engagement that attends to the representational interests of individual rights (human rights), municipalities and city-states (global cities), and the sovereign state (nation). The protocols of open-door diplomacy predominate parri passu with the imperatives of open macroeconomic management coincident to a balance of powers framework (see flowchart).

Diplomacy

The prerogative of international relations concerned with the redistribution of global power. The principal forms of diplomacy are: (a) Summit Diplomacy, between and among nation states and international institutions; (b) Development Diplomacy, designed to improve and reinforce the global agenda for development; and (c) Aid Diplomacy, as a means to implement the discretionary economic and political programs of sovereign states.

Soft Power

A collaborative and collective bargaining approach to international relations based on inclusive leadership values that embrace cultural, political and institutional dimensions to problem solving and decision-making. The ideal of peaceful progress is inherently nested in mutual aspirations for effective negotiation of the global public domain.

Hard Power

The use of coercion, compulsion and other forms of aggressive tactics to induce and leverage a course of action. Hard power is effected via modalities of military and economic power alliances including threats and the use of force.

Multi-Level Governance

Structure of Governance

The analytical framework of multi-level governance denotes interacting apparatuses of government at the sub-national, international and supranational interface. Institutional authority structures are both regulatory, concerned with protocols of rule-making; and relational, referring to systems of rule-enforcement across all levels of governments.

Dimensions of Governance

Clustering of governance activities occurs both vertically and horizontally. The vertical dimension of governance is concerned with improving institutional linkages as a means to enlarge capacity building in the quality and coherence of total public policy. At the same time, horizontal dimensions of multi-level governance involves cooperative arrangements between regions and municipalities which is instrumental to programme implementation and overall effectiveness of local public service delivery.

Global Metrics

Push Factors

Supranational agencies and other international organisations maintain development agendas that mobilises international policy transfer. International community demand for developmentalism effectively functions as the predominant push factor driving demographic outcomes on the global indices.

Pull Factors

The rise of a global justice movement, and the escalating activities of an emergent global civil society at all scales of 'glocal' engagement operate to sustain momentum for democratic order and universal rights. Civilian activism therefore represents the pull factors for global metrics.

Human Well-Being Indicators

The most prominent global indices providing a statistical measure of changes in human well-being, inter alia, includes: (i) the UN Human Development Index (UNDHI); (ii) the UN Gender-Related Development Index (UNGDI); and (iii) the Economic Freedom of the World Index (EFWI).

Environmental Indicators

Leading benchmark global indices related to measures of natural capital, ecological footprint and environmental sustainability, are: (i) the Ecological Deficit Reserve (EDR); and (ii) the Environmental Performance Index (EPI).

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