Unit 2 AOS 2: Global Cooperation and Conflict Flashcards
What is Multilateralism?
Actions or decisions taken jointly by three or more states involved in an issue. such as the Syrain refugee crisis.
What is Unilateralism?
Action or decisions taken by one state involved in an issue. Doctrine or agenda that supports one-sided action. Such action may disregard other parties, or may be disagreeable to other parties. Such as Russia
What is national interest?
The most vital objectives a state pursues.
Rationality of governing referring to a sovereign state’s goals and ambitions, be they economic, military, cultural, or otherwise.
what is Instability?
Situations of political change in policies, regimes or governments, or through violence and upheaval
What is Global cooperation?
States working together to deal with global issues
what is Global conflict?
examines war, peace, and security on a global and historical scale to reveal the contingent decisions, random accidents, and devious schemes which continue to be at the root of violence around the world.
what is Crisis diplomacy?
Global actors conducting negotiations to manage global crises
what are Global actors?
The various entities that play a role in the global political arena including: states; intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), such as the United Nations (UN), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and International Criminal Court (ICC); non-state actors such as non-government organisations (NGOs) and global terrorist movements; and transnational corporations (TNCs).
What are Non-state actors?
Individuals or groups who have power to influence change but are not members of any particular state.
A global actor that is not a state but still influences global politics. Often this refers to global actors that are not a direct part of global governance and international law, such as NGOs, global terrorist movements and/or organised religious groups. Such as world vision
what is Realism?
The theory that a state functions only to increase its power and to pursue its national interests in the national and/or global arena.
what is Cosmopolitanism?
The theory that emphasizes links between people as citizens of the world rather than the state or nation state and posits that global actors should act in the interest of human beings across the globe.
What is the global community?
The idea that there is a community that extends to all people in all states around the world, united by a common sense of humanity, utilized as a concept in Cosmopolitanism.
What is sovereignty*?
Legitimate or widely recognised ability to exercise effective control of a territory within recognised borders. This is the primary organising principle of global politics, providing states with the authority to represent their territorial entity within the international community. State sovereignty can be challenged internally (for example, secessionist groups) or externally (for example, one state invades another).
