Lesson 4: Global Governance

Question 1

The world is facing with threats and challenges that no single country, no matter how powerful it is, can deal with.

Answer 1

Global Governance

Question 2

September 11, 3000 deaths, including 19 hijackers

2002 Bali Bombings: 202 deaths, 209 injuries

2004 Madrid Bomb Attacks: 191 deaths, 2050 injuries

2005 London bomb attacks: 56 deaths (including 4 suicide bombers), 100 injuries

Answer 2

Terrorists

Question 3

Proliferation of WMDs:

Answer 3

Nuclear Weapons

Biological Weapons

Chemical Weapons

Question 4

What will happen if WMDs fall into the hands of terrorists?

Answer 4

Environmental Degradation

Question 5

Environmental Degradation:

Answer 5

Global warming

Ozone layer

Living atmosphere

Question 6

2004 Tsunami: 230,000 deaths and missing 2008 Cyclone Nagis: 138,366 deaths, $10bn
damages

2010 Haiti earthquake: around 92,000-230,000 deaths

2011 Earthquake and Tsunami

in Japan: 15,756 death, 5,927 injured, and 4,460 missing

Answer 6

Natural Disasters

Question 7

29,000 children may have already been perished UN said it has only $1.3 billion of the 2.4 billion it needs 2 assist 12m people

Answer 7

Famine in the Horn of Africa:

Question 8

In Cambodia, 250 people died, 18 provinces affected with the total cost of $521 millions Thailand, more than 500 people died with the damage cost of $ 3.2 billions

Answer 8

Flooding in Southeast Asia:

Question 9

Death toll: nearly 300,00 people 200,00 internally displaced people

1.2 million registered refugees in neighboring countries

Answer 9

Humanitarian Crisis in Syria:

Question 10

Arms trafficking

Drug trafficking

Trafficking in persons

Sex slavery

Cyber crimes

Answer 10

Piracy and Transnational Crimes:

Question 11

HIV/AIDS

Malaria, TB

2009 A(H1N1): 16,931 deaths in more than 100 countries

EV71: 64 deaths in Cambodia

Answer 11

Pandemics

Question 12

Pieces of Global Governance

Answer 12

1. International Law
2. International Norms or Soft Law
3. International Organizations (IGOs)
4. NGOs
5. International Regimes
6. Global Conference
7. Ad hoc Arrangements
8. Private Governance

Question 13

Much of the growth has been in treaty law (1951-1995: 3,666 new multilateral treaties were concluded)

Answer 13

1. International Law

Question 14

treaties or conventions, customary practices, the writings of legal scholars, judicial decisions, and general principles of law)

Answer 14

There are 5 sources of international law:

Question 15

Not a binding legal documents, but rather the standards of behaviors, such as: some human rights, labor rights, framework conventions on climate change and biodiversity.

Answer 15

2. International Norms or Soft Law

Question 16

In 2003/04, there were around 238 IGOS.

Types: Global (UN, WTO, WHO…), Regional (ASEAN, EU, AU, SAARC..). General purpose (UN, OAS), Specialized (WTO, WHO, ILO, Nato..)

Functions:

Informational-gather, analyze, disseminate data Forum exchanges of views and decision-making

Normative defining standards of behavior

Rule-creating-drafting treaties

Rule-supervisory - monitoring compliance

Operational actions to achieve goals

Answer 16

3. International Organizations (IGOs)

Question 17

There are over 6,500 NGOs that have an international dimension either in terms of membership or commitment to conduct activities.

Answer 17

4. NGOs

Question 18

Encompassing rules, norms and principles as well as the practices of actors that show both how their expectations converge and their acceptance of and compliance with rules.

E.g. IAEA, Kyoto Protocol

Answer 18

5. International Regimes

Question 19

The Summit for Children in 1990 in New York

Rio Earth Summit in 1992

Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995

Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change (COP15)

Cancun Conference on Climate Change (COP16)

Answer 19

6. Global Conference

Question 20

7. Ad hoc Arrangements

Answer 20

G7

G8

G20

G77

Question 21

Private governance is a growing, but little studies phenomenon.

Private firms are attempting to establish enforceable intellectual property rules for music, software, harmonization of labor standards, sanitation regulation

Answer 21

8. Private Governance

Question 22

What Actors in Global Governance?

Answer 22

States

IGOS

NGOS

Experts

Global Policy Networks

MNCs…

Question 23

Why we need global governance?

Answer 23

1. Globalization
2. The End of the Cold Wa
   r3. Emergent Transnational Civil Society