ABSTRACT
In focusing on the structures and processes of global governance (GG) one has to be wary of proceeding from an initial presumption that there is an empirical reality out there to be investigated. Since it suggests desirable and compelling values that ought to be promoted, GG invites wishful thinking, an unexamined premise that somehow our messy, tension-ridden world must be undergoing governance on a global scale marked by a modicum of coherence that can and should be analyzed.
