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10 - Governance: Rule, Rules, and Relations

from Part III - Power, Cooperation, and Governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 April 2018

Yaqing Qin
Affiliation:
Foreign Affairs University, Beijing
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Chapter 10 discusses global governance anew from a relational perspective, developing the concept of relational governance and defining it as a process of negotiating socio-political arrangements that manage complex relationships in a community to produce order. It differs from mainstream IRT's emphatic stress on rules and from the economic model of relation-based governance which takes relations as a mere factor to reduce the governing cost. Relational governance takes governance as a process in which negotiation rather than control or imposition is the characteristic feature. It means to govern relations among actors rather than individual actors per se, for order comes first of all from well-orchestrated relations in society. It stresses a trinity of pillars taken from Confucianism: relation, morality and trust. Good governance and sustainable order are expressed by harmonious human relations; harmonious human rations depend on morality practiced by virtuous persons; and virtuous persons trust each other to form a fiduciary community. In a diversified but globalized world, a synthetic model of governance combining rules and relations is needed indeed.
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Print publication year: 2018

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