Global Interstate System: Contemporary Global Governance Flashcards
A movement towards political cooperation among transnational actors, aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affect more than one state or region.
Global governance or world governance
The whole system of human interactions.
The modern world system is structured politically as an interstate system of competing and allying states (TGIS)
The global interstate system
An international organization designed to make the enforcement of international law, security and, human rights.
Includes 193 member countries
United Nations
The international bank for reconstruction and development (IBRD)
World bank
An intergovernmental organization and international tribunal in the hague, Netherlands (ICCJ)
International criminal Court of Justice
The only international organization dealing with the global rules of trade
World trade organization
The purpose of it is to reduce trading cost, increase business investment and help North America be more competitive in the global marketplace
The North American Free trade agreement (NAFTA)
An organization of 189 countries, working to foster global monetary corporations, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty worldwide
International monetary fund
It has multiple leadership priorities that include providing access to universal health care, preventing infectious diseases and researching factors that affect health
World health organization
Essential and enduring purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of all its members by political and military means (NATO)
The North Atlantic treaty organization (NATO)
