CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL GOVERNANCE Flashcards
“World Order Creation”
* Involves institutions, policies, norms, procedures, initiatives.
* States and citizens strive for predictability, stability, order in transnational challenges.
Global Governance
what are Sources of global governaace
*treaties
*International non-governmental Organizations
*Powerful Transnational corporations
what are International organizations
*World Trade Organization (WTO)
*The United Nations International Children’s Emergency fund
*World Health Organization (WHO)
Powers of International Organizations
*power of classification
*power of fixed meanings
*power of defuse norms
UN: A Global Organization
* Founded on October 24, 1945, in San Francisco, USA.
* Coined by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 1, 1942.
* Signed the UN Charter on June 26, 1945.
* 50 nations drew up the UN Charter at the 1945 UN Conference on International Organization.
* Poland was the last original member.
* Currently has 193 members.
History of united nations
*The 9th Secretary
General
*Took office on January
1, 2017
*A former United
Nations High
Commissioner for
Refugees
António Guterres
is the
Permanent Representative of the
Philippines to the UN
Antonio M. Lagdameo
The main deliberative policy-making
body and representative organ
General Assembly
*Considered as the most
powerful organ
*consists of 15 member
states (5 permanent, 10
elected by GA for two-year
terms)
Security Council
*The central body for coordination, policy review, policy dialogue, and recommendations on sicial and environmental issues and the implementation of internationally agreed development goals
*Has 54 members elected for
three-year terms
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
*The principal judicial organ
of UN
*The seat is at the Peace
Palace in Hague,
Netherlands.
International Court of Justice
*Established in 1945 by UN
Charter, under Chapter XIII
Trusteeship Council
