Global Governance Flashcards
The formal and informal arrangements that produce a degree of order and collective action above the state in the absence of a global government that involve coordination of the state and non- state actors.
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GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
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
Effective global governance can only be achieved with
effective international cooperation.
This imposition of mutual externalities and the existence of global goods provides both the need and justification for global governance.
The actions of any State can and often do affect the welfare of other States
Primary organization for international cooperation, peace and security.
The only international organization that can authorize the use of force against an aggressor.
UN is a membership directed organization and the members are all states. This strongly affects what it can do.
The United Nations
The United Nations System is the whole network of:
International organizations
Treaties and
Conventions
Most potent organ with the power to make legally binding resolutions.
UN Security Council
The UN Structure
UN General Assembly
UN Security Council
UN Economic and Social Council
UN Secretariat
International Court of Justice
Trusteeship Council (suspended operations in 1994)
Investigating any situation that has the potential of creating international tensions
Call for military action towards an aggressor or threat
Impose economic sanction and other measures
Determine the existence of a breach of peace and actions to be pursued
UN Security Council Functions:
Is the main deliberative organ of the UN and is composed of representatives of all Member States
UN General Assembly
It has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.
UN Security Council
Is the principal organ to coordinate the economic, social and related work of the UN and the specialized agencies and institutions
UN Economic and Social Council
It carries out the day-to-day work of the Organization. It services the other principal organs and carries out tasks as varied as the issues dealt with by the UN: administering peacekeeping operations, surveying economic and social trends, preparing studies on human rights, among others.
UN Secretariat
Is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It settles legal disputes between states and gives advisory opinions to the UN and its specialized agencies. Its Statute is an integral part of the United Nations Charter.
International Court of Justice
