Abstract
Previous chapters have analysed a number of intractable problems which have severely handicapped the UN’s capacity to act and weakened its legitimacy. Tehranian’s diagnosis of the contemporary human predicament has articulated the need to rethink the larger framework of global governance, of which the UN is the largest, most complex, perhaps most authoritative, but still only one, of its many constituent parts. What follows is a preliminary attempt to think through the institutional implications of the analysis and recommendations offered thus far. Though the UN clearly remains the centrepiece, the intention is to integrate into the reform agenda several other key actors, not least transnational corporations, international and regional governmental organizations, and the multiple and varied groups independent of the state that comprise civil society, all of which have as of now at best limited or sporadic connection with the UN system. Expressed a little differently, the aim is to situate global governance at the juncture that links the world polity, the world economy and what may loosely be referred to as ‘global civil society’.1
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Civil Society Security Council Regional Organization Global Governance Global Compact
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