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What is global governance?

What is global governance?

Map of global governance showing political bodies such as the UN and NATO, economic bodies such as the IMF, World Bank, WTO, G7 and G20, and shared limits including sovereignty, power politics and weak enforcement

Global governance is the network of rules, institutions and actors that helps states manage cross-border problems. It exists because issues such as conflict, debt, trade shocks and climate change do not stop at national borders.

Global governance: political and economic Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /Politics
  3. /Global governance: political and economic

Step-by-step lessons on Edexcel A Level Politics Global governance: political and economic. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Start with UK politics and political participation before moving on to the more abstract political ideologies and comparative/international content, which carry the heaviest evaluative demand.

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