6 - Conclusions

Summary

The empirical chapters had two primary purposes. First, they offered support for this book’s main argument: that individual global governors, as well as the aggregate global governance in specific issue-areas, are better understood as falling along an intergovernmental–nongovernmental continuum rather than simply into one of two dichotomous categories. By focusing on this continuum, we can observe the many subtle changes that take place in the intergovernmental or nongovernmental character of global governance. Second, the chapters assessed the plausibility of the two main explanations for global governance shifts across the intergovernmental–nongovernmental continuum.