Global Institutions Flashcards
What are institutions?
Political and legal organisations that pass and enforce laws and resolve differences
What do they work together to make?
Global governance a success
How do the make global governance a success?
Operate at range of scales
Decisions can affect global level
In order to receive loans what do LIC’s have to do?
Implement free trade policies and cut government spending - makes poverty worse
What do economic groups like G7 do?
Strengthen the power of developed countries rather than encouraging equality in LIC’s
UN?
1945 193 members Maintain peace and security Solve problems Friendly relations Promote growth and stability
UN growth?
UN millennium development goal as reduced poverty reduced mortality and increased education
Stability UN?
UN peacekeeping missions can help end wars
Inequalities UN?
Developed countries hold the most power
Injustices UN?
UN infective failed to protect 8000 people in SE Europe when massacred Bosnian serbs
