2.4 Contemporary Global Governance Flashcards
is a product of neo-liberal paradigm shifts in international political and economic relations. It is a movement towards political integration of transnational actors aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affect more than one state or region.
Global governance or world governance
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Global governance can be thus understood as the sum of laws, norms, policies, and institutions that define, constitute, and mediate trans-border relations between states, cultures, citizens, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and
the market
TRUE
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NATO is a tool to identify solutions to problems created by neoliberal
globalization.
FALSE
Global governance is a tool to identify solutions to problems created by neoliberal globalization.
a tool to identify solutions to problems created by neoliberal
globalization. Its concept relates to the interaction of myriad collective or individual entities emanating from various societal and professional orientations, which form networks that engage to address issues that threaten local and global
communities.
Global governance
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Both the international organizations (lOs) and the
United Nations (UN) being the only universal membership and general-purpose international organization, are essential to the understanding of contemporary global governance
TRUE
can be thus understood as the sum of laws, norms, policies,
and institutions that define, constitute, and mediate trans-border relations between states, cultures, citizens, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and the market. It embraces the totality of institutions, policies, rules practices, norms, procedures, and initiatives by which states and citizens try to bring more predictability, stability, and order to their responses to transnational challenges-such as climate change and environmental degradation, nuclear proliferation, and terrorism which go beyond the capacity of a single state to solve
Global governance
As an __________________________, the United Nation is tasked to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order. It is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental
organization in the world
intergovernmental organization
The ________________ in the world of politics has the roles of preventing and managing conflicts, regulating armaments, championing human rights and international humanitarian law, liberating the colonized, providing economic and technical aid in newly liberated countries, organizing elections, empowering women, educating children, feeding the hungry, sheltering the disposed and displaced, housing the refugees, tending the sick and coordinating disaster relief and assistance.
United Nations (UN)
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The United State (UN) is the smallest,
most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world.
FALSE
it is the largest
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The UN aims to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war; to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights; to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained; and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom
TRUE
Four Main Purposes of the UN Charter (114)- a written grant by a country’s legislative or sovereign power, by which an institution such as a company, college, or city is created and its rights and privileges defined.
- Maintaining worldwide peace and security
- Developing relations among nations
- Fostering cooperation between nations in order to solve economic, social,
cultural, or humanitarian international problems - Providing a forum for bringing countries together to meet the UN’s purposes and
goals
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Global governance has evolved as one of the most influencing tools for globalization which has led to the foundation of sustainable development projects around the Asia.
FALSE
around the Globe.
There were five stages or main gaps meet by UN in the 21st century. These are __________, ____________, ___________,__________ and ___________ . A critical hole in any of the five
stages can cause efforts at problem solving to collapse.
knowledge, norms, policy, institutions and compliance
critical ingredient for transforming real assets into commodities and ultimately financial assets, that is, the third path which is the capitalization of assets
Law
Basic Elements of a State
- Territory
- People
- Sovereign Power
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Nation-states are challenged by multinational corporations to address the issue of foreign direct investments to force nation-states to ascertain the allowable international influence in their economies
TRUE
Factors which lead to the increase and acceleration of movement of people, information, commodities and capital.
- Lifting of trade barriers
- Liberalization of world capital markets
- Swift technological progress (information technology, transportation and
communication)
Problems afflicting the world today which are increasingly transnational in naturethose that cannot be solved at the national level or State to State negotiations.
- Poverty
- Environmental pollution
- Economic crisis
- Organized crime and terrorism
Effects of greater economic and social interdependence to national decisionmaking processes.
- It calls for a transfer of decisions to the international level
- It requires many decisions to be transferred to local levels of government due to an increase in the demand for participation.
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Decision making processes in globalization is complex as it takes place in various levels such as sub-national, national, and global which lead to the growth of a multi-layered system of governance.
TRUE
Decision making processes in globalization is complex as it takes place in various levels such as _________, ___________, and ____________which lead to the growth of a multi-layered system of governance.
sub-national, national and global
The following can be guaranteed only by the States through independent courts:
- Respect of human rights and justice
- Promote the national welfare
- Protect the general interest
it has the roles in operating the intricate web of multi-lateral
arrangements and inter-governmental regimes, enter into agreements with other States, make policies which shape national and global activities, agenda of integration by clearly pronouncing the problem of capacity inadequacy of individual States
State
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The Goverment has the roles in operating the intricate web of multi-lateral arrangements and inter-governmental regimes, enter into agreements with other States, make policies which shape national and global activities, agenda of integration by clearly pronouncing the problem of capacity inadequacy of individual States.
FALSE
State not Government
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Though State is required by globalization to imrove its capacity to deal with greater openness, it must remain central to the well-being of its citizens and to the proper management of social and economic development.
TRUE
