ABSTRACT
I have been asked to contribute a chapter on the internationalism system in the Asia-Pacific region after the end of the Cold War. But my chapter is entitled ‘Global governance in the age of transnationalism’ to reflect my contention that an ‘international system’ is just one aspect of the larger world order that has increasingly come to be called ‘global governance’, and that in today’s world it makes little sense to focus on one region of the globe. So many transnational connections have developed, and many of them constitute trans-regional ties. Therefore, any examination of the contemporary world would have to be at once global and transnational.
