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Global governance Political Flashcards

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ECOSOC Strength Example - Water

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200 million people have gained access to a safe water supply

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UNSC Strengh Example - Peacekeeping

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Authorised more than 70 peacekeeping missions since its foundations
E.G Economic sanctions in iran and Military action in Libya

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UNSC Strength Example - Poverty Reduction

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Extreme poverty has been reduced by half worldwide since MDGs were created in 2000

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UNSC Strength Example - UN Resolution 678 Kuwait

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Following Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, it authorised member states to deploy all necessary means to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation.

Lead to Gulf War

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UNSC Strength Example - South Sudan

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17,000 UN personnel are responsible for consolidating peace and security

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UNSC Strength Example - Ivory Coast

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2004 - Sent 3000 troops
2012 - Sent 12000 troops

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UNSC Weakness Example - Resolutions ineffective

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Resolution 751 (1992)

Established peacekeeping mission in Somalia

However, it failed due to: size of country, compelx internal rivalries and insufficient military deployments.

Forces were withdrawn in 1995

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UNSC Weakness Example - Veto

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2020 China and Russia vetoed resolution aimed at providing humanitarian aid to war torn Syria

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UNSC Weakness Example - Ignored

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Blair and Bush ignored urlings over their continued invasions of Iraq

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UNSC Veto details

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Russia and China use the Veto most frequently

UK and France have not used the veto since the 1980s

Recently the USA has vetoed resolutions concerning the Israel-Palestine Conflict

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UNSC Weakness Example - Rwanda

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Refused to send troops during Rwandan Genocide
-Due to deaths of some servicemen during conflict in Somalia in 1993

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NATO Strength Example - Adaptation

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Dealt with numerous threats since Cold War
E.g Afghanistan after 9/11

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NATO Strength Example - Yugoslavia

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1995 - Air campaign helped to end Bosnian War

1999 - Bombing campaigns may have stopped Kosovo Genocide

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NATO Strength Example - Operation Ocean Shield (OOS)

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Between 2009-2016 OOS worked on combatting piracy in the Indian Ocean

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NATO Strength Example - Srebrenica

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90s - Took military action against Bosnian Serbs follwing the Srebrenica Massacre

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NATO Strength & Weakness Example - Fee

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2% of GDP paid in order to join

However: Only 20% of members pay the 2%

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NATO Weakness Example - Afghanistan

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Complete Failure of an operation, now in control of Taliban

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NATO Weakness Example - Gaddafi

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2011 NATO Overthrew Gaddafi in Libya, then failed to provide the necessary military commitment to rebuild Libya, allowing it to become a Haven for Crime

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UN Weakness Example - Syria & Ukraine

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Powerless in intervening, inhibited by Veto

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UNGA Weakness Example - Free Democracy figure

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> 50% aren’t free democracies

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UNGA Weakness Example - Resolutions

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Non binding - symbolic value

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UNGA Weakness Example - Consensus

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Equality of nation states entails consensus is hard to achieve

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ECOSOC Strength Example - SDG2 Reduce Hunger

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Number of undernourished people has been halfed in 2 decades

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ECOSOC Strength Example - Poverty

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From 1990, levels of poverty were halved by 2010 - 5 years before the deadline of 2015

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ECOSOC Strength Example - Committment to MDGs & SDGs

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Commited to the 8 MDGs from 2000-15
Currently focusing on 17 SDGs from 2015-30.

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ECOSOC Strength Example - SDG4 Education

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Worldwide number of children out of school reduced by half since 2000

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ECOSOC Strength Example - SDG1 Poverty

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380 million backing

Number of people living in extreme poverty has been reduced from 1.8 billion to 800 million

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ECOSOC Weakness Example - SDG1 Poverty

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80% of the world’s poor still live in Sub-Saharan African and South Asia

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ECOSOC Weakness Example - SDG7 Affordable and Clean Energy

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By 2030 - 660 million people will still lack access to electricity and close to 2 billion people will still rely on polluting fuels and technologies for cooking

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ECOSOC Weakness Example - Saudi Arabia

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Saudi Arabia has a highly controversial record on human rights

However, it sits on the Human Rights Council because no other country competed for its seat

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ECOSOC Weakness Example - No plan

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Helen Clark - headed UNDP from 2009-2017 said it had very little sense of strategic planning

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ECOSOC Weakness Example - WHO

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Attemped to reach pandemic treaty. Each country give 20% of vaccines to WHO
Have all countries agree to same terms.
not viable gobally - different cultures
E.g China boarding up houses during covid isn’t viable in other places

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ECOSOC Weakness Example - SDG2 Reduce Hunger

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795 million people remain chronically undernourished

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ECOSOC Weakness Example - Remit

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Remit is vague and overlaps heavily with UNGA

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ICJ Strength Example - Temple

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Cambodia and Thailand had disagreement over who got a temple, settled without either member losing face - Cambodia got the temple

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ICJ Strength Example - Albania & Corfu

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Albania found guilty of planting explosives which caused damages in Corfu.
Had to pay £844,000 as a repurcussion

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ICJ Weakness Example - Clause for Jurisdiction signing

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74/193 Signed it

Accepts in advance they’ll be subject to ICJ jurisdiction

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ICJ Weakness Example - Russia

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Ruled the Russian invasion of Ukraine was illegal and demanded that military operations be suspended, however Russia simply ignored this

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ICJ Weakness Example - Chagos Islands

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2019 ICJ declared UK ownership of Chagos Island to be llegal, and that they should be return to Maritius.

UNGA voted 116/6 that they should be returned

UK has refused to comply, stating that they will only be returned when they are no longer required for defence purposes

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ICJ Weakness Example - Israel & Gaza

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March 2024: Unanimously ordered that Israel must enable the unhindered flow of aid into Gaza in order to avert famine.

Would be Legally binding, though there is a lack of means of enforcement

Israel responded by saying that allegations that it is blocking aid are “wholly unfounded”

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G7 Strength Example - Corporation tax

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Committed to a 15% corporation tax

-Developing countries lose $160bn per year to MNCs dodging taxes

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G7 Strength Example - Covid-19

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Unanimously agreed to donate vaccines to poorer countries

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G7 Weakness Example - Decline in Influence

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Being overtaken by other countries.

E.g China is the world’s second largest economy
By 2100 the population of the G7 is predicted to be a mere 7.7% of the global total

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G7 Weakness Example - Trump

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2019, Trump didn’t turn up to meeting on climate issues

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G7 Weakness Example - Compliance Rate

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67%

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G7 Weakness Example - % of world economy

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1990 - 70%

2024 - 43%

2100 - 6.6%

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G20 Strength Example - Climate Change

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2023 - States agree to triple renewable energy capacity globally by 2030

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G20 Weakness Example - Ukraine

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G20 Changed its stance on Ukraine slightly, issuing no direct criticism of Russia whereas in 2022 it directly condemned them

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G20 Weakness Example - Bali Summit 2022

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Communique only stated that “most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine”

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G20 Strength Example - Biden + Xi

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In 2022, Biden met with Xi and promised there would be no new Cold War between the two

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ICJ Strength Example - Judgements and Advisory Opinions

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As of June 2024 - 197 Judgements / 28 advisory opinions

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