ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides an effort to include aspect of leadership in the analysis of global processes, especially in the context of cooperation and global synergy building. Leadership is a guiding force behind macroprocesses organising global governance and global politics and offers a way to get to the roots of their micro-foundation. The driving force behind structural leadership is power; therefore, state actors have been indicated as a primary force transforming global reality and creating the structure of relations, institutions, expectations and knowledge. Structural leadership is more oriented at reacting to global disorders than engaging in the task of reconfiguring important elements of order that are associated with global politics. Relational leadership has always mattered in global politics, and it is likely that its importance is going to increase, given the scale of interdependence.