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Global Governance and Interstate Systems Flashcards

1
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It is a movement towards political
integration of transnational actors aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affect more than one state or region

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Global Governance or World Governance

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T or F: Global Governance tends to involve institutionalization

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True

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T or F: Institutions of global governance tend to have full power to enforce compliance

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False, limited power only

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It is the term used to designate all regulations intended for organization and centralization of human societies in a global scale

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Global Governance

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What is the most important challenge for humanity?

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To overcome that of existential risks

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T or F: Global governance mean a global government

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False

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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.

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True

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T or F: Global governance is a coercive power consisting of legal authority and efforts that are not centralized and coordinated.

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True

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It means governing or with political authority

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Government

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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

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Governance

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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

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Governance –> global public policy

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T or F: Global governance refers to the way in which global affairs are managed

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True

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T or F: The definition of governance is flexible in scope

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True (General, Bilateral participation, Regional participation, Specific, Function-specific participation, Global participation)

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Presents a clear divide between top-level
policy formulation and the subsequent implementation of these preset goals by
administrators and service providers

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Top-down approach

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Initiates with the target groups and service deliverers, because they find that the target groups are the actual implementers of policy.

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Bottom-up approach

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Formal or informal rules that have
been consciously designed to change the behavior of various economic factors.

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Market Governance Mechanisms (MGMs)

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Interfirm coordination that is characterized by organic or
informal social systems, in contrast to bureaucratic structures within firms and
formal contractual relationships between them

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Network Governance

18
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Process of maintaining and managing an
online presence in an organized way

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Complex Web Governance

19
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Governance that arises out of informal cooperative interactions among transnational non-governmental elites on the one hand and state officials on the other hand

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Side-by-side Governance

20
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When was United Nations created?

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October 24, 1945 when the United Nations Charter was signed

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What are the main objectives of UN?

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  1. To maintain international peace and security
  2. Promote human rights and global development
22
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It is the main deliberative, policy-making, and representative organ of UN

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General Assembly

23
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Has the primary responsibility under the UN Charter for the maintenance of international peace and security

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Security Council

24
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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

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Economic and Social Council

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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

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Trusteeship Council

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It is the principal judicial organ of the UN which seats at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands)

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International Court of Justice

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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

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The Secretariat

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Global Interstate System

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  1. The modern world-system is now a global economy with a global political system
  2. Includes all the cultural aspects and interaction networks of the human population
  3. Relationship between different state unions
  4. 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
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T or F: World systems perspective emerged during the world evolution in 1968

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True

30
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T or F: The history of colonialism and decolonization were seen to have shaped the structures and institutions of the whole global system

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True

31
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It is a macro-scale approach to analyzing world history of the mankind and social changes in different countries

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World-Systems Theory

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Semi-peripheral Nations

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  1. less developed economy
  2. end up midway between core and periphery countries
  3. strive to get into a dominant position of the core nation
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Semi-peripheral Nations

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  1. less developed economy
  2. end up midway between core and periphery countries
  3. strive to get into a dominant position of the core nation
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Peripheral Nations

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  1. least economically developed
  2. high percentage of uneducated people
  3. very high level of social inequality and weak government

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