Navigating Global Governance: The Emergence Of A Pluralistic World And India’s Role In The Rise Of Non-Western World Order
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Medha Priya, LL.M., Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar (GNLU) 2024-25; Graduated in Law from Amity Law School, Noida (2017-22)
ABSTRACT
Governance in simple terms, can be said to be an ever-evolving concept that reflects how power and authority are utilized to manage societal and political affairs and realize collective objectives. The adjective global when prefixed to the term adds complexity to the concept while narrowing its purview. The web of complexity incorporates inclusion of various actors—states, international organizations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), multinational corporations (MNCs), and civil society groups—across multiple levels and domains that transcend national borders, such as climate change, international security, economic stability, human rights, and public health. The ideology of ‘Change with Continuity’ having taken center stage, the mode of governance has appeared to have expanded its ambit to appreciate the underlying transformation from localisation to globalization to a rather mixed approach of globalization infused with elements of localization. While the impact of globalisation retains its essence, alongside, it also admits the contextualised nature of state sovereignty. Presently, the global governance organizations favour flexibility over rigidity, and partnerships and alliances over individual actions.
In the present paper, the emerging trends in global governance are examined through the lens of new world order underscoring multipolarity and multilateralism with shifting alliances. The postulate of normative pluralism marked by the rise of non-state actors, propagation of alternate government models and values backed by different cultural, religious, and ideological perspectives thereby, sidelining the philosophy of western liberalism has been acknowledged.
The author attempts to draw the map of change in governance considering different facets- political, economic, cultural, environmental, health and technology.
