Contemporary Global Governance Flashcards
is a continuous process of balancing different interests and initiating cooperative action.
Global governance
It encompasses the totality of institutions, policies, norms, procedures, and initiatives through which states and their citizens try to bring more predictability, stability and order to their responses to transnational challenges.
Global governance
UN Organs
General Assembly
Security Council
Economic and Social Council
International Court of Justice
Secretariat
Trusteeship Council
Main deliberative body, policymaking and representative organ of 193 member states.
General Assembly
Decisions on important issues, such as those on peace and security, admission of new members and budgetary matters, and others are being discussed.
General Assembly
responsible for the maintenance of peace and security.
Security Council
takes the lead in determining the existence of a threat to the peace or act of aggression.
It calls upon the parties to a dispute to settle it by peaceful means and recommends methods of adjustment or terms of settlement.
Security Council
principal body for coordination, policy review, policy dialogue, and recommendations on economic, social and environmental issues.
Economic and Social Council
It is the United Nations’ central platform for reflection, debate, and innovative thinking on sustainable development.
Economic and Social Council
• UN’s principal judicial organ.
• The Court’s role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized United Nations organs and specialized agencies.
International Court of Justice
comprises the Secretary-General and tens of thousands of international
UN staff members who carry out the day-to-day work of the UN as mandated by the General Assembly and the Organization’s other principal organs.
Secretariat
provides international supervision for 11 Trust Territories and ensure that adequate steps are taken for self-government and independence. It suspended its operation on ______ _ ____.
Trusteeship Council - November 1, 1994
- provides international supervision for 11 Trust Territories that had been placed under the administration of seven Member States, and ensure that adequate steps were taken to prepare the Territories for self-government and independence.
Trusteeship Council
To confronts the 21st century challenges
Actor
A space for members to manifest their opinions and perspectives
Venue
Functions of UN
- To maintain international peace and security.
- To protect human rights.
- To deliver humanitarian aid.
- To promote sustainable development
- To uphold international law.
Challenges of global governance in the 21st century
- veto power of the five permanent members of the Security Council.
- Police power to regulate actions of the member states and enforce orders and decisions.
