ABSTRACT:
Global governance is often predicated on the applicability of universal ideals, rules and regulations. The production, implementation and contestation of specific policies and technologies that engender the ‘global order,’ however, remain unevenly distributed and spatially bound–emblematized in the taken for granted spatial division between a Global North and a Global South. To explore these
asymmetries and ground global governance, we offer a provocation: 'does global governance exist'? We present some of the inevitable tensions that arise once we interrogate the promise of universal ideals in global governance against their asymmetrical implementations across three areas of policy design and social praxis: economic sanctions, maritime trade, and digital connectivity. Please join the 2024-2025 Global Horizons Fellows as they use these problem spaces to explore the tensions inherent to the spatial and scalar asymmetries of global governance, and draw out the implications of such thinking for our contemporary political predicament.

This is an event of the Global Horizons Fellowship Programme.