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IntlPolitics
International Politics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who has the largest voting block in the UN? | The Third World |
| What perspective promoted their ideas and interest and uses foreign aid and technology transfer, loans, public health, and other matters | Third World Perspective on UN |
| Sees the United States as a diplomacy rather than a neutral power | Communist Perspective on UN |
| Sees the UN as exporting socialism | Communist Perspective on UN |
| Sees the UN as an instrument to promote peace and stability | US Perspective on the UN |
| Became delinquent in payments to UN | United States |
| World Hunger | Reduces human beings physically, psychologically, immune systems weaken and disease happens. Care is needed. People engage in violence to eat. External war and conflict. People who are hungry have a sense of worthlessness. |
| Why are economics a cause of world hunger? | Economics refer to having no social security system to provide for hte people. Therefore farmers have large families to provide for them. |
| Urbanization | taking farm land and building roads, hospitals, and buildings |
| Salitation | Turning salt water into fresh water |
| Demands of third world countries to the UN in respect to international political economy | 1. Better Trade terms 2. Price of goods 3. More access to markets 4. More aid fo investment, training, and development |
| Debt Forgiveness | Debt swap pay in resources or renegociate smaller price but has higher interest and longer periods of time to pay |
| Trickle Down Economies | North wants to develop first so cuts off south. South promises to invest in the countries once they develop, but they keep getting put off and cant wait. |
| Remedies for strain on international political economies | provide birth control to control population in third world countries, technology transfer be more liberal, poverty alleviation via combatting insurgencies |
| Intergovernmental Organizations | institutions created and joined by states governments, which give them authority to make collective decisions to manage particular problems on the global agenda |
| Issues dealt with by IGO's | trade, defense, disarmament, economic development, agriculture, health, culture, human rights, arts, illegal drugs, tourism, labor, gender inequality, education, debt, environment, crime, telecommunication, |
| Most prominent IGO's | United Nations and EU |
| Questions about IGO's | 1. are they adequate for dealing with the pressing threats to human welfare 2. are they undermining states autonomy and if so, if the erosion of state power will prove helpful or harmful |
| Nongovernmental Organizations | transnational organizations of private citizens maintaining consultative status with UN |
| Types of people that make up an NGO | professional associations, foundations, multinational corporations, or international active groups in different states joined together to work toward common interests |
| Best Known Global Organization | United Nations |
| Five great powers govern the UN through veto authority known as | the Security Council |
| realpolitik | the belief that countries should put their own national interest above concern for the global community |
| UN objective #1 | maintain international peace and security |
| UN objective #2 | Developing friendly relations among states based on respect for the principle of equal rights and the self-determination of peoples |
| UN objective #3 | Achieving international cooperation solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character and in promoting respect for human rights and freedom for all |
| UN objective #4 | functioning as a center for harmonizing the actions of countries to attain these common ends. |
| UN inspired to be created in order to | eliminate global anarchy form the international scene |
| Collective security | the principle that an act of aggression by any state would be met by a collective retaliatory response from the rest. |
| Six organizations within the UN | 1. General Assembly 2. Security Council 3. Economic and Social Council 4. Trusteeship Council 5. International Court of Justice 6. Secretarist |
| General Assembly | main body of UN, one state-one vote formula, majority rule, if major issue 2/3 majority |
| Security Council | responsible for threats to international peace and security, UK, US, France, Russia, People republic of china permanent |
| Economic and Social Council | addresses economic and human rights issues, 54 elected member social and economic programs, functional commission and specialized agencies |
| Trusteeship Council | administration of territories that have not claimed self-rule, stopped in 94 when last territory was laimed |
| International court of justice | The principal judicial organ. 15 independent judges elected for 9yr term. Restricted to dispute between states and its jurisdiction is based on the consent of the disputants, can also give nonbinding legal advise to UN agencies |
| Secretariat | contains international civil servants who perform the administrative and secretarial functions of UN |
| Remedies to environmental and population problems | 1. system of transportation in US, 2.educate, 3. environmental tax, 4. protection-prison & new laws, 5. environmental audits, 6. energy efficient expansion, 7. help 3rd world, 8. recycle water, 9. overcome narcissism, 10. politicians, |
| Population problems | no contraceptives, world may not be able to sustain, people have more kids because so security, use up resources, underprivileged children |
| Environmental problems | technology transforming world, naturalist shrinking, no more communal lifestyle, division of labor defined and redefined, hostile towards nature, escape to nature from modern world, ozone, global warming, energy, fresh water |
| Private International Law | law pertaining to routine transnational intercourse between or among states as well as nonstate actors. Activities such as commerce, communications, and travel. |
| Where majority of transnational disputes are regularly settle | private international law |
| Public international law | law pertaining to government-government relations as well as countries nations with other types of transnational actors |
| Weakness of public law | the ability to control armed aggression |
| Liberal view on international law | putting state ahead of glbal community is flaw and made law ineffective, defective due to dependency on states participation |
| Problem of weakness of intl law | no legislation to make laws, no legislation to record and interpret rules and identify violations, states indivudlaly responsible for this, no one capable of enforcing these rules on global evel |
| Structural violence | harm and injury caused by the global systems unregulated structure, which gives strong states great opportunities to victimize weak states that cannot protect themselves |
| positivist legal theory | a theory that stresses states customs and habitual way of behaving as th most iportant source of law |
| transnational norm | the regular customs widely practiced by countries int heir relations with other countries and the kinds of behavior that the international community accepts as what ought to be taught |
| Sovereignty | states have supreme authority to govern their internal affiars and manage their foreign relations with other states and nonstate actors |
| problems of soverignity | legal principles shape and reinforce international anarchy ; has no meaningful interaction or global governace. Theory made my realists who just made it a goal for a state to be sovereign |
| Problems of International law | lacks universality (clashes with cultures), justifies competitive pursuit of national advantage without regard to morality or justice, used as instrument to oppress the weak (structural violence), |
| Con of MNC's | connect cash flow and people in ways that erode sovereignity, globalization, using cheap labor, along with transnational banks, they redistribute the wealth by contributing to one country and stagnating the other, seen as cause of poverty and exploitation |
| Pro | freetrade, contribute to GDP, can contribute to wealth of developing country, influential stakeholders because its recognized that it affects 1 economy which is linked to all economies, incl: producing, trade, and servicing, regulatory power of state grow |
| globally integrated enterprises | MNCs organized to where a certain market becomes horizonta and a product is manufactured worldwide and not tied to any single country. |
| European Union | |
| Structure of EU | has european commission which organizes, approves, and allocates money of the budget, write laws, seems to have a democratic system similar to US of checks and balance |
| European parliament | approve budgets, laws, and overturn any decision of european commission |
| European court of justice | interprets, rules on legal questions, works with claims made against EU governments |
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