Powers and Borders - Global Governance Flashcards
What is Global Governance?
Systems and institutions that support and regulate intervention for the global community, on issues such as human rights, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Why is Global Governance needed?
To maintain and ensure peace, and improved living conditions for the global community. To provide an agreed global (or regional) framework to regulate the challenge.
What are some examples of how challenges to territorial integrity and sovereignty lead to conflict?
Competition for resources - India and Pakistan over water.
People seeking autonomy and self-determination - Palestinians.
Government failing to protect its citizens from human rights violations - Libya, Serbia or Syria.
People’s religious beliefs creating persecution - Iraq.
Different ethnic identities within a state - Kurds.
What is the role of Global Governance in conflict?
To prevent conflict through peaceful and mutually beneficial friendly relations.
To prevent conflict by creating international treaties and laws.
To prevent conflict through peace building and keeping.
To avoid conflict through means of diplomacy and negotiation.
What institutions address global governance?
IGOs (Intergovernmental organisations) - The UN, World Bank, IMF and WTO were all devised after WWII to promote and maintain a Liberal World Order.
How does Human Rights Watch regulate conflict?
Triggers warnings when a state reduces liberties and rights of people. Allows for the intervention of other states.
How does NATO regulate conflict?
Military defence and defender of liberal democracy. Defends all member nations; an attack on one is an attack on all.
How does the UN regulate conflict?
To maintain peace, the UN have five security council members who can make world changing decisions to intervene to reduce conflict.
How does the EU regulate conflict?
Economic and social integration of 27 states raises standards of living and makes conflict less likely between these countries.
How does ACCORD regulate conflict?
The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, allows facilitated negotiation and diplomacy to prevent conflict.
How does OSCE regulate conflict?
Monitors elections to ensure they are fair, reducing potential civil disorder and conflict.
How does IMF or World Bank regulate conflict?
‘Lenders of last resort’ - lend money to states for development projects.
What is the Global Peace Index?
Measures the peacefulness of countries made up of 23 indicators ranked on a scale of 1-5.
The lower the country the more peaceful it is.
How does the UN create a global governance framework to manage conflict? (5 points)
UN Charter - foundational treaty of the UN, intergovernmental organisation.
Security Council - ensures international peace and security.
General Assembly - Empowered to make recommendations to states on international issues within its competence.
Diplomats and Observers - Preventative Diplomacy > diplomatic action taken to prevent disputes from escalating into conflicts.
500 Treaties aka Accords - signed then ratified to bring treaties into law in a state that signs it.
How does the UN create a global governance framework to manage conflict? (5 points)
International Laws - set rules and norms generally recognised as binding between nations.
The Rule of Law - Fundamental to international peace, security and political stability.
Peacekeepers - A person who maintains or restores peace and amity.
Global Commons - Describes international global resource domains in which common pool resources are found.
SDGs - Sustainable Development Goals; managing inequality helps prevent aggression and civil conflict.
