Global Governance

Question 1

What is the role fo international cooperations

Answer 1

manage, influence, order, communicate and regulate security of the political, economic, social and environmental climate at a global level

Question 2

Define Global Governance

Answer 2

• Constrains conduct through international organisations and law
• institutions that ‘help’

Question 3

What triggered the creation of IO’s

Answer 3

WWI and WWII, as they affected most states around the world

Question 4

Two main issues to consider

Answer 4

1. Relationship between power and global governance

2. Too little, too much or not the right kind of global governance

Question 5

Liberals view on the relationship between power and global governance

Answer 5

• transcends and constrains state power
• fosters cooperation
• technical expertise over political interests (2003 invasion of Iraq was labelled illegal and illegitimate
• Promotes universal liberal norms

Question 6

Realists view on the relationship between power and global governance

Answer 6

• limited state power and are unable to contain states
• focuses and depends on the interest of powerful states (management of IMF and WB mainly have US on the board)
• sign of conflict rather than harmonisation of conflicts
• Promotes Western norms

Question 7

Constructivist/Post-structuralist view on the relationship between power and global governance

Answer 7

• autonomous from states
• expertise/knowledge is power
• does promote universal norms
  CP: can generate new identities and hierarchies/can favour the West

Question 8

Robert O. Keohane’s neoliberalist view

Answer 8

argued that all states could benefit from international cooperation through collective action as cooperation is mutually beneficial

Question 9

Waltz’ realist approach

Answer 9

“international institutions are shaped and limited by the states that found and sustained them and have little independent effect”

• UN security council: all 5 members were the most powerful/victorious in 1945

Question 10

Marxist/Gramscian perspective

Answer 10

IO’s operate on behalf of a hegemonic bloc of powerful states to reinforce their material interests and assert dominance => extends capitalism globally

Question 11

Don Handelman’s classification of IO’s and global governance

Answer 11

“Bureaucracies are ways of making, ordering and know social worlds”