Abstract
At the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 Pandemic has swept the world, which raises the awareness of global governance and global civil society. This paper attempts to prove global civil society is feasible and analyses its main functions during the period of resistance of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The paper unfolds in four parts. The First part is a brief introduction to the question this paper tends to address after the COVID-19 Pandemic. After that, it is the definition of civil society. Civil society can be defined as a complementary arena for state and market to ensure common welfare and public good through non-violent, voluntary and bottom-up process. However, this definition encompasses different connotations with the passage of time. In the third part, it states that civil society is inevitably globalized in the challenge of globalization. Quite a number of problems go beyond borders and the reaches of states, which leaves a vacuum for a corresponding force to regulate them. Also, global social movement-the main actor of global civil society, as an important agent, ensures the economy liberalism-embedded transnational economic organizations, as the main structure of global governance, accountable. In addition, the development of convenient communication and value convergence provide the objective conditions for the emergence of global civil society. Global civil society makes transnational organizations accountable, solves problems beyond state borders and ensures the public good and welfare. In a nutshell, global civil society is an indispensable part of today’s global governance.
Highlights
Civil Society is a terminology, which emerged in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the result of crisis in social order and a breakdown of existing paradigms of the idea of order (Seligman, 1992)
Globalization supplies global civil society, theoretical reasons and objective conditions to exist as a normative concept
Global civil society is subject to fewer rules, procedures and institutions, compared with the existing global governance institutions, it has the advantages of quick decision-making and strong execution, which improves the ability of the global governance mechanism to solve emergencies, and enhances the flexibility and action power of the global governance mechanism (Li, 2020) For example, in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, many international negotiations acted in a timely manner and made donations to support the prevention and control of the epidemic
Summary
Civil Society is a terminology, which emerged in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the result of crisis in social order and a breakdown of existing paradigms of the idea of order (Seligman, 1992). Globalization supplies global civil society, theoretical reasons and objective conditions to exist as a normative concept. The existing global governance system has been slow to respond to the epidemic, with some failures and limited effectiveness. Leadership and coordination and cooperation among major countries have become more difficult, failing to reflect the role of leadership. Countries need to rethink how they can strengthen the reform of the global governance system to better ensure human public health security. Global governance remains a long and arduous task, so the global civil society is vital
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