ABSTRACT
State sovereignty as the main principle or the constitutive rule of the modern state system has made any centralized system of authority unfeasible. Yet attempts to shape and regulate the international system have a long history. International conventions, international law, international organizations, and international regimes in general have been the main manifestations of governance at the international level (Kratochwil and Ruggie 1986). According to Ernst-Otto Czempiel (1992), governance is “capacity to get things done without the legal competence to command that they be done.” Governance at the international level has had a decentralized character and has been implemented through the above mentioned institutions.
