Chapter 6: The Ethical World Flashcards
Post 1945, countries behaviour changed from protectionism to willing to accept ….
Reciprocal obligations
Initial examples of reciprocal obligations:
NATO
IMF
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (later WTO)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
The clubs had worked by reciprocity, undermined by the norms of …. and …..
Loyalty
Fairness
UK was keen on the enlargement of the EU as the glue that had enforced …. … began to weaken.
Felt powerful countries telling other countries what to do.
reciprocal obligations
World institutions captured for different agendas
E.g. Western aid dependent on environmental and human rights requirements, so strict that not even met in own countries.
Powerful NGO - Western human rights campaigners.
A smaller group than G7 needed to encompass enough of the global economy and military capacity that its collective interest would be to fix global problems even if non-members chose to free-ride.
They are:
Two challenges:
China, India, US, EU, Russia and Japan.
Have nothing in common and headless hearts folks crying re the excluded.