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Jean, M. Kawai, L, Jing, O. Žaneta, A. Prakash. Aims and scope Global governance is a challenge of our era and us as human beings no matter where we live and what values we believe in. After one hundred years of development, international relations are so closely and tightly knit. A problem in a community might affect the life of the people in a remote part of the world and its solution might also be in the hands of these people. But can’t be assumed outside the more global International Relations theories and practices approach, an interrelated already practiced at every policy decision making, economic and financial levels and first of all by the main international powers and players. How can we manage this complex of various relations and how the outcome matters for our life and common future? It is the time for us to invest our wisdom and energy to make global governance work now and to give a sense to the United Nations already reduced to a zero-sum-game, simply playing on the major emergencies and conflicts. Because, just to mention first the obsolete veto system that would be at least extended to all the 15 countries of the Security Council, both permanent or at rotation, with the weighting of votes bringing less hypocrite the present five Jalta powers partition already 70 years ago. We are talking of a world that is not existing anymore, dissolved in the passage to the third millennium but with UN moving as in the previous century. There is no simple way and framework for global governance. Global governance is a general term which means to think globally and act globally. It is complicated because problems might be local but even so assuming quite often a global political relevance that transforms them into a global issue and the connected challenges. The solution might be then achieved in national or regional groups of States but very often they escalate to continental or global international relevance. We need to sort out which solutions are the best for the problems or conflicts. We need to identify who should be the persons of good will taking the challenge and adding their political, intellectual, 4 scientific capabilities and mighty for the reasons of the an ordinate human destiny. The international community have to take an action worldwide to reshape the UN and its political and operative roles. The so-called global issues are definitely the ones requesting a global governance, interdependence of International Relations with finance, economy, technology, research, peace and conflicts in the new scenario with advanced knowledge until a few years ago unimaginable, new military mighty introduced by innovation must be some of the crucial challenges, where also our Journal Global Policy and Governance intends to contribute opening its pages, issue after issue, to faculty, experts, testimonies, articles and relevant review of books, researches and working papers. We intend to embrace and reach all the possible interested colleagues and fellows around the world, as choices and strategies in all the sectors involving public and private governance, nobody excluded, are under questioning