Global Governance Flashcards
Define global norm
Shared expectations/standards of appropriate behaviour accepted by states and intergovernmental organisations.
What is global governance?
How global affairs are managed
Varies spatially- countries near a situation or further away etc…
Why is global governance difficult to define? (An amorphous term)
Because it covers many aspects e.g politics, trade, security
Covers affairs too big for one nation to handle.
Included norms and values as well as laws and regulations.
What are the issues that global governance needs to solve?
See 17 sustainable development goals
SEEP
Outline the UN
Formed 1945 post ww2 to prevent future conflicts - promote peace, security and cooperation
Has 193 member states
What are the main sticks of the UN?
Un general assembly
Un security council
Who
Un development program
Positive and negative of the UN general assembly
Independent party to ensure international agreements are upheld
Each country has a rep. Developed nations - have more power?
Positive and negative of the UN Security Council
5 permanent members
Facilitated nuclear disarmament since the Cold War
Not always agreed on situations - 2094 Russian annexation of Crimea
Positive and negative of the WHO
Eradicated small pox
Coordinated response to COVID
Criticism for lack of efficiency in COVID and Ebola
Positive and negative of the UN development program
Meet most of the millennium development goals
Preoccupied with growth, not with ecological factors.
What are the positives of the IMF and WB?
Provides loans, helps avoid economic crisis, promotes reduction of poverty.
Helps business develop
What are the negatives of the IMF and WB?
Large, wealthy nations get more influence
Insists on being paid back for loans
Insists on reproduction of capitalist majors in loanees economy.
Top down finding - not directly tackling poverty
Problems with the WTO?
World trade organisation
Dhoa development round - created disagreement between HDEs and LDEs
Progress for the WTO? What has it achieved?
Bilateral agreement between EU and Latin America - ended banana dispute
Nairobi package - decisions made to benefit WTOs poorest members.
Define bilateral and multi lateral agreements
Bilateral - trade/aid agreements between two companies or groups
Multilateral - same but between more than two countries or groups
