Transforming Global Governance in the Post-2015 Era: Towards an Equitable and Sustainable World

McKeon, Nora

doi:10.1080/14747731.2016.1244757

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“…It suggests that these principles can be operationalized by characterizing the deliberative system in question, its public and empowered spaces and the levels of transmission, accountability, meta-deliberation and decisiveness. This comprehensive approach complements recent academic efforts in better understanding the structures and patterns of global food and sustainability governance from a systemic point of view [68].…”

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Deliberation in Multi-Stakeholder Participation: A Heuristic Framework Applied to the Committee on World Food Security

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Multi-stakeholder participation (MSP) has become a central feature in several institutions and processes of global governance. Those who promote them trust that these arrangements can advance the deliberative quality of international institutions, and thereby improve the democratic quality, legitimacy and effectiveness of both the institutional landscape, as well as decisions made within it. This paper employs a heuristic framework to analyze the deliberative quality of MSP. Specifically, it applies Dryzek's deliberative systems framework to the case of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). The assessment shows that the CFS improves the deliberative quality of food security governance by including and facilitating the transmission of discourses from the public to the empowered spaces. However, the deliberative quality of CFS could be higher with stronger accountability mechanisms in place, more meta-deliberation and adoption of CFS outcomes at national and local levels. Reflecting on the limitations of using this heuristic framework to assess MSP, we conclude that the analysis would benefit from more explicit consideration of different forms of power that are part of the social relations between actors involved in such settings. By proposing this analytical approach, we expect to advance a heuristic framework for assessing deliberation in an international context of the growing importance of MSP in sustainability and global governance.

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Deliberation in Multi-Stakeholder Participation: A Heuristic Framework Applied to the Committee on World Food Security

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“…The number of what are called 'failed states' is increasing but the plurality of ways in which they are doing so is cause for alarm. The 'fragmentation of global governance architectures' is not leading to coherent structuration at an 'international' level (Biermann et al, 2009;Cerny, 2016a;McKeon, 2017).…”

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The new anarchy: Globalisation and fragmentation in world politics

Cerny

Prichard

2017

Journal of International Political Theory

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Modern International Relations theory has consistently underestimated the depth of the problem of anarchy in world politics. Contemporary theories of globalisation bring this into bold relief. From this perspective, the complexity of transboundary networks and hierarchies, economic sectors, ethnic and religious ties, civil and cross-border wars, and internally disaggregated and transnationally connected state actors, leads to a complex and multidimensional restructuring of the global, the local and the uneven connections in between. We ought to abandon the idea of 'high' and 'low' politics, 'inside' and 'outside' once and for all. This does not remove the problem of anarchy but rather deepens it, involving multidimensional tensions and contradictions variously described as 'functional differentiation', 'multiscalarity', 'fragmegration', disparate 'landscapes', the 'new security dilemma' and 'neomedievalism'. Approaching anarchy from the perspective of plural competing claims to authority and power forces us to think again about the nature of global order and the virtues of anarchy therein. Will the long-term outcome be the emergence of a more decentralised, pluralistic world order or a quagmire of endemic conflict and anomie?

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“…According to Gleckman (, 92), over the last 20 years “in the intergovernmental arena, multistakeholder consultations have gained wide support as an umbrella framework for bringing together diverse constituencies to develop common approaches to contemporary global challenges and to present challenging development projects.” Given this new momentum, diverse “non‐state actors are becoming important players in world politics even though states are still inclined to see them as unwelcome guests and even intruders” (Badie , 85). Given that we are witnessing this kind of transformation, it is relevant to question “the concept of consensus which assumes the actors around the table have equal power and compatible if different interests” (McKeon , 492), in particular, in a country like Mexico with a strong authoritarian tradition.…”

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“…I characterize the Beyond2015 campaign as an example of nongovernmental organization (NGO) networks establishing narratives that normalize the interconnection between local‐global domains as part of the contemporary political environment (Colomer ; McGrew ; Scholte ; Tormey ) with the view to influence global agendas. In this sense, I describe the initial steps of what Gills (cited in McKeon , 489) has called a “global public sphere.” With this analysis, I show how Mexico, labeled an emerging global actor, is taking part in global politics. Using the case of the NGO campaign, Beyond2015 in Mexico, the article examines the broader question of how governments, global political institutions, and nongovernmental actors are building diplomacy as a collaborative and inclusive space.…”

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Contemporary Diplomacy, Global Politics, and Nongovernmental Actors: Dilemmas of the Multistakeholder Mechanism of Participation in Mexico

Alejo

2019

Politics & Policy

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This article examines dilemmas of the multistakeholder mechanism of participation in Mexico—situated in the context of the post‐2015 Agenda for Sustainable Development—to rethink the interplay between contemporary diplomacy, global politics, and nongovernmental actors. The central argument is that diplomacy has to open up and function as a collaborative space that includes nongovernmental actors who, in turn, influence the design of contemporary institutions. This, I contend, ultimately leads to a redefinition of relations between governments and societies under a more democratic, inclusive design and code of conduct. The case of the nongovernmental organization campaign “Beyond2015” in Mexico is used in the above context. I evidence, through a qualitative analysis, that the particular multistakeholder mechanism encouraged both at the United Nations level and the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, held important limitations for developing an effective inclusive mechanism for certain nongovernmental actors.

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Transforming Global Governance in the Post-2015 Era: Towards an Equitable and Sustainable World

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Deliberation in Multi-Stakeholder Participation: A Heuristic Framework Applied to the Committee on World Food Security

Deliberation in Multi-Stakeholder Participation: A Heuristic Framework Applied to the Committee on World Food Security

The new anarchy: Globalisation and fragmentation in world politics

Contemporary Diplomacy, Global Politics, and Nongovernmental Actors: Dilemmas of the Multistakeholder Mechanism of Participation in Mexico

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