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Review of Governing the World? Addressing “Problems Without Passports”

In this brief volume, leading international organization (IO) scholar Thomas Weiss offers an impassioned plea for the necessity of restraining sovereignty to address today’s thorniest global challenges. He begins by offering a short intellectual history of the concept of global governance. Weiss traces academic interest in global governance to the post-Cold War world in which many thought growing interdependence and the influence of nonstate actors would lead to something approaching world government. Although historically global governance has consisted of voluntary action by global actors, Weiss contends that this will not be sufficient to confront the world’s most pressing problems, particularly climate change, to which he devotes much of his attention. In outlining his vision, Weiss argues that the sovereignty of even more powerful states is increasingly constrained by factors such as economic integration, communications technologies, and human rights norms. Ultimately, Weiss argues that the onus is on individuals, both to change our own behavior and to pressure our governments, to address climate change. In order for this to occur and to overcome the North-South division enshrined in the Kyoto Protocol, humanity must develop a greater sense of shared identity, as he argues has occurred in Europe. In the end, Weiss contends that solving climate change requires creating or empowering an international institution that is universal in its membership, including not only nation-states but also nonstate actors such as multinational corporations and civil society organizations. This entity would need to be imbued with resources, independence, and initiative (70–71) in order to effectively address the issue. The book’s argument will strike many readers as naı̈ve. Weiss’ proposal to ‘‘go big’’ runs counter to prevailing sentiment among academics and policy makers that so-called minilateral solutions to climate change are more viable (see Eckersley 2012 for a review of this debate). He acknowledges the utopian nature of his proposal, asking ‘‘readers to hold [guffaws] until the end’’ (3). In the end, it is the failure to adequately situate his contribution in the existing literature rather than the audacity of his vision that undermines his argument. Much hinges on the European Union (EU) as a model for the globe in that, for Weiss, the institution’s development represents Europeans’ recognition of a common fate and of the necessity of collaboration