Global Governance and Interstate Systems Flashcards
It is a movement towards political
integration of transnational actors aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affect more than one state or region
Global Governance or World Governance
T or F: Global Governance tends to involve institutionalization
True
T or F: Institutions of global governance tend to have full power to enforce compliance
False, limited power only
It is the term used to designate all regulations intended for organization and centralization of human societies in a global scale
Global Governance
What is the most important challenge for humanity?
To overcome that of existential risks
T or F: Global governance mean a global government
False
T or F: Global governance strives for a collective identity able to respond to problems that affect more than one state or region that go beyond the capacity of individual states to solve.
True
T or F: Global governance is a coercive power consisting of legal authority and efforts that are not centralized and coordinated.
True
It means governing or with political authority
Government
It refers to the formal political institutions that aim to coordinate and control independent social relations and has the ability to enforce by force their decisions
Governance
According to James Rusinao, it denotes the regulation of interdependent relations in the absence of an overarching political authority such as in the international system
Governance –> global public policy
T or F: Global governance refers to the way in which global affairs are managed
True
T or F: The definition of governance is flexible in scope
True (General, Bilateral participation, Regional participation, Specific, Function-specific participation, Global participation)
Presents a clear divide between top-level
policy formulation and the subsequent implementation of these preset goals by
administrators and service providers
Top-down approach
Initiates with the target groups and service deliverers, because they find that the target groups are the actual implementers of policy.
Bottom-up approach
Formal or informal rules that have
been consciously designed to change the behavior of various economic factors.
Market Governance Mechanisms (MGMs)
Interfirm coordination that is characterized by organic or
informal social systems, in contrast to bureaucratic structures within firms and
formal contractual relationships between them
Network Governance
Process of maintaining and managing an
online presence in an organized way
Complex Web Governance
Governance that arises out of informal cooperative interactions among transnational non-governmental elites on the one hand and state officials on the other hand
Side-by-side Governance
When was United Nations created?
October 24, 1945 when the United Nations Charter was signed
What are the main objectives of UN?
- To maintain international peace and security
- Promote human rights and global development
It is the main deliberative, policy-making, and representative organ of UN
General Assembly
Has the primary responsibility under the UN Charter for the maintenance of international peace and security
Security Council
It is the principal body for coordination, policy review, policy dialogue and recommendations on economic, social and environmental issues, as well as implementation of internationally agreed development goals
Economic and Social Council
Tasked to provide international supervision for 11 Trust Territories that had been placed under the administration of 7 member states and ensure that adequate steps were taken to prepare the territories for self-government and independence
Trusteeship Council
It is the principal judicial organ of the UN which seats at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands)
International Court of Justice
It 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
The Secretariat
Global Interstate System
- The modern world-system is now a global economy with a global political system
- Includes all the cultural aspects and interaction networks of the human population
- Relationship between different state unions
- A hegemon is a core state that has a significantly greater amount of economic power than any other state, and that takes on the political role of system leader
T or F: World systems perspective emerged during the world evolution in 1968
True
T or F: The history of colonialism and decolonization were seen to have shaped the structures and institutions of the whole global system
True
It is a macro-scale approach to analyzing world history of the mankind and social changes in different countries
World-Systems Theory
Semi-peripheral Nations
- less developed economy
- end up midway between core and periphery countries
- strive to get into a dominant position of the core nation
Semi-peripheral Nations
- less developed economy
- end up midway between core and periphery countries
- strive to get into a dominant position of the core nation
Peripheral Nations
- least economically developed
- high percentage of uneducated people
- very high level of social inequality and weak government
