UN and GLobal Governance Flashcards
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
Have the power of
classification.
Have the power to fix meanings.
Have the power to diffuse norms.
● It can invent and apply
categories, they create
powerful global standards
Have the power of
classification.
UNHCR
UN High Commissioner for
Refugees
True or False: States, organizations, and individuals view International Organizations (IOs) as a legitimate source of information.
True
Terms like “security” or “development”
need to be well-defined.
Yes
are accepted codes of conduct
that may not be strict law, but produce
regularity in behavior
Norms
Most prominent IO in the
contemporary world
● After the collapse of
League of Nations and
World War I
The United Nations
the UN So far achieved its primary goal of
averting another global war
THE UNITED NATIONS
FIVE ORGANS:
1. General Assembly (GA)
2. Security Council (SC)
3. Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC)
4. International Court of
Justice
5. Secretariat
“main deliberative
policymaking and
representative organ”
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
“Decisions on important
questions, on peace and
security, admission of
new members, and
budgetary matters,
require a ?
2/3 majority of GA
elected as GA president from 1949-1950
Carlos P. Romulo,
how many states have seats in the GA
193
Elects GA president annually to serve a __ term of office
one-year
Most powerful
15 member states
GA elects ten of these 15 to
two-year terms
SECURITY COUNCIL
SECURITY COUNCIL
Permanent 5
- China
- France
- United Kingdom
- Russia
- USA
SECURITY COUNCIL
10 non-permanent members
- Albania
- Brazil
- Ecuador
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Japan
- Malta
- Mozambique
- Switzerland
- UAE
● “the principal body for coordination, policy review, policy dialogue, and recommendations on social and environmental issues, as well as the implementation of internationally agreed development goals”
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL
(ECOSOC)
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (ECOSOC), Central platform for discussions on
sustainable development
“to settle, in accordance with
international law, legal disputes submitted to it by states and to give advisory opinions referred to it by authorized UN organs and specialized agencies”
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
“Secretary-General and tens of thousands of international UN staff members who carry out the day-to-day work of the UN as mandated by the General Assembly and the organizations’ other principal organs.
SECRETARIAT
CHALLENGES OF THE UNITED
NATIONS
- The need to respect state sovereignty
- Security
International Organizations and the United Nations are highlighted because they are
he most visible symbols of
global governance
UN is the closest to
world government
