The Structure of Global Governance: Network Density and Centrality, 1919 – 2014

• In Event: 323 - Regular Session. Globalization

Abstract

The modern system of global governance is comprised of the institutions of structural control within the globalization process that operate formally and informally within the world-system to exert power via both consent and coercion on nation-states and their peoples. This research examines the emergence and development of the primary networks that comprise global governance in its political and economic forms, these being networks of international trade, foreign aid, and IGO membership. Calculating and plotting the variable centralization and density of these networks since the establishment of the League of Nations, the summary data from this network analysis are subsequently incorporated into an attribute dataset including non-network measures of global governance—among them, a hegemon’s military budget, and the ratio of world imports to world GDP—in an effort to assess measures of autocorrelation, cross-correlation, and conduct other time-series analysis, including ARIMA regression models.

Author

• Alexis Antonio Alvarez, University of California-Riverside