ABSTRACT
The age of global governance is and its arrival is signaled by the small yet extremely important nuance of the shift away from exclusive reliance on the word "government." A government is a legal entity with a written constitution, a geographically fixed capital city and buildings, a crowned or elected leader, a flag and plenty of symbols, and general idea of its highest level as the place where the buck stops. A nation is conceived as a bounded geographic entity, its people united by a common cultural and ethnic heritage, A state is generally recognized as possessing sovereignty, meaning the right to govern within a specific territory without outside interference. In some ways the most pervasive elements of the global governance system, regimes are arrangements worked out among governments to coordinate interactions of various kinds. Governments frequently create international organizations (IGO) to administer regulatory and standardization regimes, but there are also IGOs that serve other political and cultural purposes.
