ABSTRACT
Global governance is facing a real challenge nowadays, especially due to incomplete participation on certain issues by great powers such as the United States. Under President Donald Trump, the US has excluded itself from the Paris Agreement for Climate Change. While in the face of potential nuclear confrontation, the US has shown its impatience toward the Kim Jong-un regime of North Korea.
The above phenomena signify the existence of a problem with the current model of global governance through the United Nations. The remodeling of global governance can be pursued by using a mature governance model from management studies. However, we argue that a more fundamental factor for creating more effective global governance is by building mutual trust and perception among the nations of the world in order to address global issues. Some states are not willing to absorb the consequence(s) of a global regime that would risk their domestic interests or conveniences. Other states appear not to care at all about the risks or threats that will be faced in the long run, because they are facing many current domestic issues that need to be addressed more urgently.
As many nations have different priorities, capacities, and perceptions toward global risks, we think the best approaches to building mutual understanding about global risks among the people of the world and addressing them by global action are (1) constructing world opinion, (2) shaping global ethics, and (3) eventually making international laws (that are in line with domestic laws). The Institute for Defense and Strategic Research (IDSR) proposes a model that can be implemented in order to achieve more effective global governance, called IDSR’s Global Governance 2.0 Model.
