Disseminative systems and global governance

Disseminative systems are identified as central to the organization and dynamism of humanity's globalized condition. Three types of disserninative systems are defined and their characteristics are delineated in terms of the considerable challenges they pose to comprehensive and effective global governance. The pervasiveness and configuration of disserninative systems presents a further range of conceptual, political, and social difficulties that frustrate a "problem solving" approach, both to the control of disserninative systems themselves and to wider global governance. Without discounting either the potential or the difficulties of conceiving and exercising governance over disserninative systems, the speed and extent of their proliferation and adaptability suggests a fundamental consideration for the development of global governance theorizing: whether its possibilities fall short of the world we have already created.