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What is the role fo international cooperations

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manage, influence, order, communicate and regulate security of the political, economic, social and environmental climate at a global level

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Define Global Governance

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  • Constrains conduct through international organisations and law
  • institutions that ‘help’
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What triggered the creation of IO’s

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WWI and WWII, as they affected most states around the world

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Two main issues to consider

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  1. Relationship between power and global governance

2. Too little, too much or not the right kind of global governance

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Liberals view on the relationship between power and global governance

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  • transcends and constrains state power
  • fosters cooperation
  • technical expertise over political interests (2003 invasion of Iraq was labelled illegal and illegitimate
  • Promotes universal liberal norms
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Realists view on the relationship between power and global governance

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  • limited state power and are unable to contain states
  • focuses and depends on the interest of powerful states (management of IMF and WB mainly have US on the board)
  • sign of conflict rather than harmonisation of conflicts
  • Promotes Western norms
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Constructivist/Post-structuralist view on the relationship between power and global governance

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  • autonomous from states
  • expertise/knowledge is power
  • does promote universal norms
    CP: can generate new identities and hierarchies/can favour the West
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Robert O. Keohane’s neoliberalist view

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argued that all states could benefit from international cooperation through collective action as cooperation is mutually beneficial

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Waltz’ realist approach

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“international institutions are shaped and limited by the states that found and sustained them and have little independent effect”

  • UN security council: all 5 members were the most powerful/victorious in 1945
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Marxist/Gramscian perspective

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IO’s operate on behalf of a hegemonic bloc of powerful states to reinforce their material interests and assert dominance => extends capitalism globally

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Don Handelman’s classification of IO’s and global governance

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“Bureaucracies are ways of making, ordering and know social worlds”