The Contemporary Global Governance Flashcards
a MOVEMENT TOWARDS POLITICAL INTEGRATION of transnational actors aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affect more than one state or region.
Global governance or world governance
It is concerned with issues that have become TOO COMPLEX for a single state to address alone
Global governance
It tends to involve INSTITUTIONALIZATION, and these institutions - the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, the World Bank, etc. - tend to have limited or demarcated power to enforce compliance.
Global governance
The two types of International Organizations
Universal membership
Limited membership
Universal membership
United Nations (UN), Bretton Woods Institutions and World Trade Organization (WTO)
Limited membership
European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
the sum of laws, norms, policies, and institutions that define, constitute, and mediate trans-border relations between states, cultures, citizens, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and the market.
global governance
Who coined the United Nations?
US Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
United Nations was coined by US Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt when representatives of __ nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers
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was established after World War II with the aim of preventing future wars, succeeding the ineffective League of Nations (LON).
United Nations
In ______, representatives of __ countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the UNITED NATIONS CHARTER.
1945, 50
It was signed on 26 June 1945 by the representatives of the 50 countries.
The Charter
The Charter was signed on ______ _____ _____ by the representatives of the 50 countries.
June 26, 1945
___________, which was not represented at the Conference, signed it later and became one of the original 51 Member States.
Poland
There are _____ UN member states with the addition of South Sudan in July 14, 2011.
193
Philippines joined UN on _________ ____ ____, under the administration of Sergio Osmeña.
October 24, 1945
- Philippines joined UN on October 24, 1945, under the administration of _________________
Sergio Osmeña.
Purpose of UN:
▪ Maintaining _______ peace and security
▪ Developing _______ among nations
▪ Fostering ___________ between nations in order to solve economic, social, cultural, or
humanitarian international problems
▪ Providing a ______ for bringing countries together to meet the UN’s purposes and
goals
worldwide
relations
cooperation
forum
Main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the UN. Including all 193 UN member states.
General Assembly (GA)
In GA, decisions on important questions (peace and security) require a ______ majority
two-thirds
In GA, decisions on other questions are by ______ majority
simple
Each year, General Assembly elect a GA President to serve a ___ __ ______ term of office
one year
The General Assembly, each year, elects a GA President to serve a one-year term of
office (incumbent: ____________of Maldives)
Abdulla Shahid
Responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security
Security Council (SC)
Security Council have ____ Members (____ permanent and _____ non-permanent members)
15, 5, 10
Takes the lead in determining the existence of a threat to the peace or act of aggression
Security Council (SC)
The Security Council has a Presidency, which rotates, and changes, every _________.
month
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.
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
ECOSOC has ___ Members, elected by the General Assembly for overlapping three-year terms
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is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.
International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice seat is at the
Peace Palace in the Hague (Netherlands)
Settle ,in accordance with international law, legal disputes and to give advisory opinions on legal questions
International court of justice
Comprises the Secretary-General and tens of thousands of international UN staff members
Secretariat
is chief administrative officer of the Organization, appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council for a FIVE YEAR, renewable term
Secretary-General
was established in 1945 by the UN Charter, to provide international supervision for Trust Territories that had been placed under the administration of Member States, and ensure that adequate steps were taken to prepare the Territories for self-government and independence.
Trusteeship Council
CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN THE 21st CENTURY includes issues that involve interwoven domestic and foreign challenges include threats at the beginning of the century which include ethnic conflicts, infectious diseases, and terrorism as well as a new generation of global challenges including climate change, energy security, food and water scarcity, international migration flows and new technologies. (T or F)
True
CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN THE 21st CENTURY include domestic politics creates loose constraints on international cooperation and reduces the scope for cooperation. (T or F)
False (tight constraints…)
CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN THE 21st CENTURY include the same perspectives on and suspicions about global governance, which is seen as a Western concept, add to the difficulties of effectively mastering the growing number of challenges. (T or F)
False (diverse perspective)
Diverse perspectives on and suspicions about global governance, which is seen as a
___________, add to the difficulties of effectively mastering the growing number of
challenges.
Western concept
