In other words, governance in the more global world of the twenty-first century has become distinctly multi-layered and cross-cutting. Regulation occurs at – and through interconnections among – municipal, provincial, national, regional and global sites. No single ‘level’ reigns over the others, as occurred with the primacy of the state over suprastate and substate spheres in territorialist circumstances. Instead, governance tends to be diffuse, emanating from multiple locales at once, with points and lines of authority that are not always clear.