Contemporary globalization – and the rise of supraterritoriality more particularly – has encouraged a number of changes in the organization of governance in the contemporary world. Territorialism as the previously prevailing framework of social space was closely interlinked with statism as the previously prevailing mode of regulation. Hence a move away from territorialism in geography has, not surprisingly, unfolded together with a move away from statism in governance. As a result, society in today’s more global world is regulated in what can be termed a polycentric manner.