Cooper, Andrew F.Thakur, RameshWeiss, Thomas G.Wilkinson, Rorden2015-12-072015-12-079780415627436http://hdl.handle.net/1885/25220The architecture of global governance is made up of intergovernmental global and regional organizations as the inner core of formal multilateral machinery; informal but functionally specific and single-problem oriented institutions such as the Proliferation Security Initiative; and a 'soft' layer of informal, general-purpose institutions such as the myriad of 'G' groups which "serve as consensus incubators and direction-setters, not direct action decision-makers." 1 They can range from G zero-a world in which no country exercises hegemonic power or influence-to G1, a unipolar world. In recent times there has been much talk of a possible G2, meaning the United States and China, and some talk of a possible G3 (with either the European Union, EU, or India being the third member).201410.4324/97802037959722020-11-22