ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the arguments for the necessity of global governance, as well as attempt to show in how far it has developed and strengthened, and what elements it presently consists of. Direct globalization is causing the necessity of global cooperation, which is the basis for global governance. Ann Florini argues that the necessity for global governance is caused by the externality of the withdrawal of the state. Global governance is marked by the fact that governance is partly transferred from the traditional actors to new actors. Forms of conduct or modes of interaction in global governance are including: intergovernmental/multilateral policies; and public-private cooperation and private forms of governance; as well as unilateralism/hegemonic governance. Regimes are understood as central institutions, but not as actors of global governance. Multilateralism is the central mode of interaction within global governance and it is becoming more important over other forms of interaction.
