The document discusses 5 propositions about the current state of global governance and hegemony: 1. The recent expansion of global financial markets is a sign of a hegemonic crisis, not a new stage of capitalism, and will end catastrophically without proper management of the crisis. 2. The bifurcation of military and financial power decreases the likelihood of war but not systemic chaos during this hegemonic transition period. 3. The proliferation of transnational organizations will continue to shape systemic change by disempowering states. 4. The recent decline of social movements signals difficulties fulfilling the global New Deal but a new wave of social conflict is likely. 5. Transforming the global

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CONSENSUS
(1) the polity which concerns (1) aggregative: the sum of small de-
the institutional constitutions of cisions made by citizens, eg econom-
the political community; ic
(2) discursive: the result of open,
(2) policy which examines free, rational debate on moral issues
how political programmes can among all citizens
shape social circumstances;
CONFLICTUAL
(3) politics which deals with (1) antagonistic: conducted through
the process of political conflict armed struggle
over power-sharing and power (2) agonistic: conducted on the ter-
positions rain of an agreed polity, with control
and redesign of the polity as prize
Chantal Mouffe (2005), On The Political, Routledge, London

2. “The emergence and-
establishment of gover-
Governance nance in the global realm
is traced back to various
A actors engaging in insti-
1. Defining governance
tution building, standard
2. Governance as neo-liberal ideology
setting, and rule formu-
efficiency, progress, implementation, compliance
lation beyond the state
3. Global governance as project of US hegemony ...There is no concrete en-
B tity corresponding to the
1.What do agents do when they govern? term ‘global governance’
and waiting to be even-
2. What kinds of governance are desirable? tually discovered. Global
governance remains a
3. What kinds of governance are possible? conceptual creation and
C therefore will always be
1. Governance as virtual space of possible futures
a contested and contest-
able term”.
Späth, Konrad (2005), ‘Inside Global Governance:
New Borders of a Concept’ in Lederer, Marcus and
Philipp S Müller (eds) (2005), Criticizing Global
see: Our Global Neighbourhood: UN Commission on Global Governance 1995 Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, New York: 24.
http://www.libertymatters.org/globalgovernance.htm

3. Gerard Ter Borch, The Signing of the Treaty of Westphalia, 1648
Signed to mark the end of the Thirty Years War, which had begun when the King of Bohemia, the Holy
Roman Emperor elect, attempted to force all his subjects to profess the Catholic faith. Battles for terri-
tory as well as religion devastated Europe, especially what was later to become Germany (see Brecht’s
Mother Courage). The Treaty established the boundaries of national organisations, and formalised the
relations between them. It is regarded as the foundation of the contemporary international order, that
is the relationships between nation-states.
1.The Nation: public service broadcasting – the BBC

4. 1895 Gugliermo Marconi invents radio, founds the Mar-
coni Company
1908 ship-to-ship wireless transmissions common
1914-18 widespread military use of wireless
1920-21 widespread lobbying for amateur radio licenses
1922 foundation of the British Broadcasting Company in-
cluding various manufacturers including Marconi
1927 Royal Charter; becomes the British Broadcasting
Corporation;license fee established
1932 BBC Empire Service founded(English-language,short
wave);becomes Overseas Service in 1939
1932 John Logie Baird’s BBC experiments with television
1936 regulare television broadcasts commence alternating
between Baird and EMI systems
1939-1945 WWII
1941 BBC European Service launched

5. 1950 European Broadcasting Union founded
1955 ITV launched as commercial competition
1962 Pilkington report
1964 BBC2 television launched
1964 pirate radio. BBC responds by reorganising national
and regional services
1971-2006 Open University broadcasts on BBC
1977 Annan Committee
1979 launch of BBC Enterprises (later BBC Worldwide)
1982 Channel 4 launched
1985 Peacock Committee
1988 Overseas Services renamed World Service, funded
through grant-in-aid
1992-2000 John Birt Director General; producer choice
2000- present Increased digital terrestrial channels, web-
presence, international services, publications.
2004 Hutton enquiry; resignation of Greg Dyke

6. Issues in Public Service Broadcasting
Universality of access vs competition regulation
Public interest vs. National interest
Detachment from government vs legislative dependence
Popularity vs quality
Reach vs target audiences
NPM - new public management

7. Market failure
monopoly tendency
‘residues’ of hierarchy
...

8. proposition 1
the global financial expansion of the last twenty
years or so is neither a new stage of world capi-
talism nor the harbinger of a “coming hegemony
of global markets”. Rather it is the clearest sign
that we are in the midst of a hegemonic crisis. As
such the expansion can be expected to be a tem-
porary phenomenon that will end more or less
catastrophically, depending on how the crisis is
handled by the leading hegemon
excerpeted from Arrighi, Giovanni and Beverly J Silver (with Iftikhar Ahmad, Kenneth Barr,
Shuji Hisaeda, Po-keung Hui, Krishmendu Ray, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, Miin-wen Shih and
Eric Slater) (1999), Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System, University of
Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.

9. proposition 2
The most important geopolitical novelty of the
present hegemonic crisis is a bifurcation of military
and financial capabilities that has no precedent
in earlier hegemonic transitions.The bifurcation
decreases the likelihood of an outbreak of war
among the system’s most powerful units. But it
does not reduce the chances of a deterioration of
the present hegemonic crisis into a more or less
long period of systemic chaos.

10. proposition 3
Unlike the global financial expansion, the prolif-
eration of the number and variety of transnational
business organisations and communities is a nov-
el and probably irreversible feature of the present
hegemonic crisis. It has been a major feature in
the disintegration of the US hegemonic order and
can be expected to continue to shape ongoing
systemic change through a general, though by no
means universal, disempowerment of states.

11. proposition 4
The disempowerment of social movements – the
labor movement in particular – that has accompa-
nied the global financial expansion of the 1980s
and 1990s is largely a conjunctural phenomenon.
It signals the difficulties involved in delivering on
the promises of the US-sponsored global New
Deal. A new wave of social conflict is likely, and
can be expected to reflect the greater proletari-
anization, increasing feminization, and changing
spatial and ethnic configuration of the world’s la-
bor forces

12. proposition 5
The clash between Western and non-Western civilizations lies behind
us rather than in front of us. What lies in front of us are the difficul-
ties involved in transforming the modern world into a commonwealth
of civilizations that reflects the changing balance of power between
Western and non-Western civilizations, first and foremost the reemerg-
ing China-centred civilization. How drastic and painful the transforma-
tion is going to be – and, indeed, whether it will eventually result in a
commonwealth rather than in the mutual destruction of the world’s civi-
lizations – ultimately depends on two conditions. It depends, first, on
how intelligently the main centers of Western civilization can adjust to
a less exalted status and, second, on whether the main centers of the
reemerging China-centred civilization can collectively rise up to the task
of providing system-level solutions to the system-level problems left
behind by US hegemony