Club governance

The term club governance describes informal cooperation and coordination mechanisms between two or more countries. In contrast to the institutionalized forms of international cooperation - such as the United Nations (UN) or the European Union (EU), such transnational cooperation is characterized by a weak degree of institutionalization and generally a small group of participants.

Club governance represents a possibility of global policy making and cooperation and is therefore counted among the forms of global governance . Well-known examples are the informal meetings of the heads of state of the G8 (formerly G6 / G7 ), G5 or G20 , the IBSA dialogue forum (India-Brazil-South-Africa-Forum) or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

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• Ulrich Schneckener: Global governance through clubs. Definition, opportunities and limits of club governance . In: SWP-Aktuell, No. 47, 2009, accessed on July 9, 2019.
• Susanna Vogt: A progressive style notion waiting to be developed - global governance between G-8 and G-20. In: KAS international information. May 2010, pp. 7-25 , accessed June 9, 2010 .