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Despite (or maybe precisely because of) its apparent vagueness, the concept of governance has become one of the most influential intellectual leitmotifs in contemporary political science. Expanded in scale and scope within the field of International Relations (IR), the notion of global governance appears to be even less specific, more intricate, and hence even harder to pinpoint. To no surprise then, ever since its introduction in the 1990s, both proponents and opponents have criticized the concept for its inherent ambiguity and loose definition (Finkelstein 1995; Latham 1999; Murphy 2000). More surprising though is the fact that the concept nevertheless triumphed in reorienting the discipline as global governance today serves as a major point of reference for both scholars and practitioners of world politics (Barnett and Sikkink 2008). As such, global governance carries a world of diverging meanings and normative commitments when...
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Hofferberth, M. (2016). Global Governance. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2530-1
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