The main contradiction of modernity is that under the influence of globalization processes the world community, in fact, becomes more and more, according to all the parameters of social life, a single holistic system. At the same time, there are no governance mechanisms adequate to this holism. Moreover, global governance, which cannot emerge spontaneously, is not being built intentionally and theoretical discussions about it are rather rare today, not being in the center of everyone's attention as they deserve to be. Besides, governance in general and global governance in particular, unlike regulation, cannot emerge spontaneously. This issue is to be discussed below; now I would like to make some points about why it happens. First, we talk about a principally new, unprecedented situation related to governing an extremely complicated and huge socio-natural system, which human beings never encountered in their history. This situation is exacerbated by the fact that experience accumulated by the humankind and the certified approaches to resolving complex problems are not valid any more. At the same time, no new approaches have been worked out. Second, the world community, in spite of the increasing interdependence of different countries and peoples, still remains fragmented, divided into autonomous and self-defining structures, which function in accordance to their own laws targeting, first of all, their private profits and interests. These are nationstates, multinational corporations, and confessional systems, such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc. And third, globalization itself and its numerous consequences remain a subject of serious discussions. Such discussions often conceal the main thing: globalization is, first of all, an objective historical process and not a project specially designed by someone, or someone's insidious plan and intention. This should be emphasized because if rethinking globalization processes and their circumstances we would focus on subjectivity and pay attention, first of all, to who benefits from it and who behaves in which way, than we would start searching perpetrators and discussing globalization scenarios. In this case one faces inability to distinguish between the objective, natural course of events of social development and the subjective human activity. The former, of course, is the basis of such a development but it is not sufficient to provide governing complex systems without adequate structures and mechanisms. Thinking globally, on can not help recognizing the state of affairs: there are no structures and mechanisms of government adequate to the holistic global world. That is why, in my opinion, it is not productive to look Available online at www.sciencedirect.com