Welcome to Cato Daily Podcast

Daily Podcast for Wednesday, June 20th.

This is your host Anastasia Yuglova.

The debate this month at Cato Unbound addresses the question of global governance and just how

global it actually should be.

The lead essay authored by Daniel Dresner is the topic of the podcast today.

Daniel is associate professor of international politics at Tufts University's Fletcher

School and author of the new book, All Politics is Global, explaining international regulatory regimes.

I suppose it's a cliche in political economy circles to say that globalization is transforming

governance in a way that constrains the power of individual states.

What's your take on this point of view?

My take is like all cliches, there's a small glimmer of truth, and much of it is not true.

Globalization is transforming global governance mostly by creating a new set of issues

that people care about. 20, 30 years ago the question was about tariffs and about quotas

and about capital controls and those sorts of things.

What the current era of globalization has done is rendered those sort of border-level barriers moot.

But the residual impediments to global integration are regulatory questions.

How should labor be treated?

How should banks be regulated?

What can we read on the internet?

What foods are safe to eat?

These sorts of things.

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