GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AS A DECISION-MAKING MODEL. THE OLD CONCEPTUALIZATION OF A NEW INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE

Abstract

‘Global governance’ is a concept, which, like ‘globalization’ caused a great commotion in intellectual and scholarly circles in the last decade of the 20th century. The extreme attitudes accompanying its emergence are best characterized by the discussion held in the journal bearing the same title2. There was a dispute not only over what it is but also whether it exists at all. From the standpoint of this study the dilemma of ‘it exists/it does not exist’ seems to be definitively resolved. The aim of this paper is to analyze global governance as an intenational decision-making model. New arguments will be presented which show that this international practice in statu nas-cendi is neither an institution, nor a global system, nor a world order but rather a way of specific decision-making.