13 - TANs

Question 1

Boomerang model

Answer 1

Internal groups repressed by their state turn to TANs to pressure other states to pressure their repressive state from the outside

Question 2

Civil society organizations

Answer 2

NGOs that voluntarily work together to serve the greater social and political good within a society

Question 3

Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy

Answer 3

2006 UN General Assembly document to 1) prevent terrorism, 2) promote international cooperation against terrorism, 3) build ability to fight terrorism, 4) ensure global standards for fighting terrorism don’t break laws

Question 4

International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism

Answer 4

2002 treaty making it easier for international cooperation in tracing and shutting down terrorism financing networks

Question 5

INTERPOL

Answer 5

International Criminal Police Org - created in 1923, based in Lyon, France

Question 6

National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

Answer 6

Created by US government in 1983 to promote democracy abroad - funded by congress, provides grants to pro-democracy groups in other nations

Question 7

Norma

Answer 7

Unwritten rules that govern social behavior

Question 8

Norms life cycle

Answer 8

The idea that TANs are successful when they create new norms, force governments to act on those norms, and get their norms to be… normal

Question 9

Other-oriented TANs

Answer 9

TANs focused on helping those besides themselves

Question 10

Policy entrepreneurs

Answer 10

People committed to innovative policy change and work to achieve those changes

Question 11

Self-oriented TANs

Answer 11

TANs focused on things that benefit primarily the members of those in the network

Question 12

Supranational organization

Answer 12

One whose rules can override those of national states

Question 13

Transnational Advocacy Network

Answer 13

Networks that 1) must include non-state actors, 2) may include states or IOs as well, 3) represent a recurring, cooperative partnership with 4) differentiated roles among the component parts

Question 14

UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances

Answer 14

Treaty promoting international cooperation to stop the transnational trafficking of illegal drugs, starting 1990

Question 15

UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

Answer 15

2003 treaty promoting international cooperation to deal with organized crime