Global governance is a system of administrative supervision and decision-making above the level of individual nations intended to cope with problems that emerge at a global level. A key function of global governance is to provide global public goods, such as peace, security, functioning markets, mechanisms for conflict resolution and unified standards for trade and industry.[1]
Evaluation
80,000 Hours rates global governance a “potential highest priority area”: an issue that, if more thoroughly examined, could rank as a top global challenge.[2]
Further reading
Lu, Catherine (2006) World government, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, December 4 (updated 5 January 2021).
Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 199–205.
Rhodes, Catherine (2018) Risks and risk management in systems of international governance, in John Garrick (ed.) International Colloquium on Catastrophic & Existential Risk, University of California, Los Angeles, pp. 125–143.
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Global Challenges Foundation (2020) What is global governance?, Global Challenges Foundation.
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80,000 Hours (2022) Our current list of pressing world problems, 80,000 Hours.