Beschreibung:
Alexandru Grigorescu is a professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Democratic Intergovernmental Organizations? (Cambridge, 2015). Prior to his academic career he worked as a diplomat in the Romanian Foreign Ministry and at the United Nations.
Challenges traditional classifications of international organizations as either government-run or nongovernmental. By considering them as complex mixes of the two that exist on a continuum, subtle changes in global governance can be observed. Such changes tend to repeat themselves, and we may soon experience a return to past trends.
1. The Intergovernmental-nongovernmental continuum in global governance ; 2. Causes of intergovernmentalism and nongovernmentalism; 3. Global governance in the health realm; 4. Global governance in the labor realm; 5. Global governance in the technical standards realm; 6. Conclusions.