Global governance Flashcards
Multilevel governance networks
involve states, institutions, group, individuals
Global governance involves intergovernmental organzations
-UN
-EU
The commonwealth
-La francophonie
Global governance involves specialised intergovernmental organizations
-WTO
-International monetary fun (IMF)
-International bank for reconstruction and develop,ent (IBRD)
Global governance also invovles
-Civil society organisation
-NGOS
-Transgovernmetnal networks
-Financial actors
informal regimes
Imperialism - empires
-Relationship of dominant power with subservients
-Rests on power asymmetries
-Coercion/ acquiescence
-Enforcement of homogeneity
-can be traced to greek city state of Athens
-persian mpire, Ottoman Empire, Holy Roman Empire, byzantine empire, Chinese empire, Russian empire, British empire
Balance of power
-after the peace of Westphalia
-self preservation on the part of those in position of power
-prevent the rise of hegemonic or imperial powers
-commitment to a more pluralist global order
-rests on diplomacy
-promoted by many realist scholars (waltz, mearsheimer)
-the threat of war to preserve the balance of power
Concert of Europe
-lased from 1815-mid 1850s
-shift from balance of power to pluryilateral inferences
-limited to the great powers of the time
-but the concert stopped short of establishing formal institutions
-relied on a series of intermittent meetings
-but it was euro-centric and statist
International public unions
-communications
-transportations
-intellectual property
-free trade
League of Nations
-multipurpose, almost universal organisation
-developed in the wake of WW1
-based on Woodrow Wilsons 14 points
-an improvement on the Concert of Europe and The Hague conferences
-a permanent formal international organization
The United Nations
-multipurpose, universal international organisation
-the most advanced stage of global governance institution
-main organs (UN, GA) and specialized organisations
