Class 1 Flashcards
What’s the main Difference between governance and government?
both refer to a system of rule, to global orientation activities, both refer to problem saving at global level. However, government suggests activities backed by a institutionalized authority with a centralized power, with the result of public policy. While Governance is much more complex, and suggests activities backed by both formal and informal institutions. Usually no center of power, or multi-center of power. And the result is more of an arrangement than a public policy, is not a single world order, or hierarchical structure, its horizontal, not vertical.
What are Pieces of global governance:
- International rules or law
- Norms or soft law
- International institutions, formal and informal
- International regimes
What is soft law?
Soft Law: international laws, legal conventations, that are not in fact binding, they are less legal obligations than some standards of behavior, like the management of climate change.
Why do states form intergovernemrntal organizations?
They take advantage from it, the org manage issues and other stuff from the state better, while the states can keep sovereignty, which limits the power of the org, which they themselves give.
What are international regimes?
International Regimes: commonly accepted by the international actors, legitimated behavior. “Governance without government”. It is a set of rules, norms and practices both formal and informal, commonly accepted by international actors as the standard for common behavior.
What are Epistemic communities?
are transnational groups of experts, scholars, think tanks that produce knowledge for decision makers while pressuring them to act in a myriad of subjects. Important symbiose (relation) between experts and decision makers, experts are more important than ever.
What is the problem of globalizations now?
In a certain moment globalization generated a complex global interdependence, but at the same time did not generate a system of regulation, a political management, and that is the problem. Today the actors that have the power to solve global problems, but they do not have legitimacy as they are not elected. So there has been a reaction against globalization, as assymetries have been generated (inequalities).
What are Intergovernmental organizations?
IGO Functions:
Informational - gathering, analysing & disseminationg data
Forum - providing place for Exchange of views and decisionmaking
Normative - defining standards of behaviour
Rule-creating – drafting legally binding treaties
Rule-supervisory – monitoring compliance with rules, sttling disputes, taking enforcement measures
Operational – allocating resources, provinding technical assistance, deploying forces
What are Intergovernmental organizations?
IGO Functions:
Informational - gathering, analysing & disseminationg data
Forum - providing place for Exchange of views and decisionmaking
Normative - defining standards of behaviour
Rule-creating – drafting legally binding treaties
Rule-supervisory – monitoring compliance with rules, sttling disputes, taking enforcement measures
Operational – allocating resources, provinding technical assistance, deploying forces
Hedley Bull view on international order
Bull’s conception of the international order proposes that the international system cannot just be seen in material terms, merely as a decentralized and anarchic structure in which the different units vary according to the distribution of power.
According to Bull, the international order is an order made by the states, for the states, rather than a post-state order.
The international order is the creation of a structure of rules, norms, and mutual expectations—historically created and developed usually after large wars.
For this reason, Bull’s concept of international society serves as an anchor to the analysis of international institutions. The next step, therefore, is to frame Bull’s concept of international order on the grounds of the main theories of international relations.
