Governing the world outside the United Nations

Global governance is no longer the sole prerogative of states and international organisations. Actors fragment and pluralise. Corporations, labour unions, communities, individuals, and many others share the common aim to solve increasingly complex issues through the generation of new norms (even though they may go about it in contentious or collaborative ways). Recent decades have witnessed the creation of a new form of collaborative global governance, multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs). These span a wide range of public/private and global North/South divides in an attempt to tackle global issues more flexibly and reactively. Their stakes, challenges and impact are discussed in this interview with Amelia Evans, Executive Director of MSI Integrity, conducted by Deval Desai, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy of the Graduate Institute.