Global Constitutionalism and Global Governance: Towards a Un-Driven Global Constitutional Governance Model

Abstract

The development of the UN governance process-model provides the basic constitutional framework for an integrated system of global governance that unifies the different legal systems under constitutional principles and procedures that respect pluralism and their overall diversity. It is however evident that any system of global governance requires a broader range of mechanisms to enable the meaningful involvement of new actors in decision-making, given the failure of the inclusion mechanisms implemented thus far in the intergovernmental UN system. It is therefore clear that the new model that is being developed should be seen as only the beginning of a global constitutionalization process.