“Collaborative Governance” vs. “Sovereign Unilateralism”

This section returns to the question of parochial obstacles to a global politics achieved through negotiation, respect, and mutual restraint. We illustrated in Chapter 14 the problem posed by patrio-opportunism and the “unilateralism” of the George W. Bush administration. Here we assess the problem of intransigence further, and point out that there are a number of strategies that states could pursue—and have pursued—to get on with global issues despite resistance from a major power.