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Human systems and global governance
Author(s) -
Whitman Jim
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.695
Subject(s) - corporate governance , politics , global governance , sustainability , political science , sociology , human rights , environmental ethics , management , law , economics , ecology , philosophy , biology
Many of the trends identified by Geoffrey Vickers are now clearly visible in the intensification of globalizing dynamics, yet the implications of these developments for human security and sustainability have still not been grasped adequately. The most pertinent and extensive literature in the social sciences concerning political and organizational arrangements at the highest levels of human organization is the study of global governance. However, the many themes and perspectives that comprise this literature tend toward sectoral speciality, or intra‐community theoretical debates. If we are to engage Geoffrey Vickers' insightful and now pressing range of questions, global governance theorists might do best to ask, ‘What would an adequate global governance be the governance of ?’ Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.