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Powers and Borders - Global Governance - Flows Flashcards

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What are the flows of people?

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  • Diplomat, ambassadors, head of state
  • Observers Monitors, envoys and negotiators
  • UN peacekeepers
  • UN police
  • NGOs
  • Refugees
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What do diplomat, ambassadors, head of state do?

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Meet, negotiate and de-escalate violence

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What do observers Monitors, envoys and negotiators do?

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Watch for corruption/ oppression, report back and pre-empt violence

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What do UN peacekeepers do?

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Protect civilians - allow the distribution of aid

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What do UN police do?

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Strengthen rule of law

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What do NGOs do?

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Provide assistance on the ground

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What role do refugees play?

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Ethically alert us to our responsibility to humanity

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How many peacekeepers in the world?

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96,000

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What are the positive effects of peacekeeping?

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  • Cost effective -> 0.5% of global annual military budget
  • Sustain excellent local logistics to ensure food, medicine, refugees are delivered + political strategic solutions
  • 22% of civilian peacekeepers are female helping to promote equality
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What are the positive effects of special envoys?

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  • Can raise awareness
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What are the positive effects of missions?

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  • Specific and mandated
  • Long term and flexible
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What are some of the negative effects of roles in global governance?

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  • 4000 deaths of Un peacekeepers
  • After 70 years still a peacekeeping mission in Indian Pakistan border -> 70,000 deaths
  • Envoys and observers and peacekeepers are not always listened to
  • Missions can fail when there’s complexity -> underfunding
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How many elections were monitored by 2000?

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80%

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Why are elections monitored?

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To ensure registration and voting are fair -> public trust is built

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What is the allocation of peacekeepers like?

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  • Allocated since 1949
  • Can be police, civilians (ICT specialists), negotiators, medical professionals
  • Patchy track record if no peace to keep
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What is the role of money in geopolitical intervention?

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  • UN require member Staes to pay into general pot -> or lose your vote
  • SDGs require funding
    UNHCR + UNICEF need additional funding
  • Bretton Woods Institutions, the IMF + the World Bank designed to alleviate poverty and share prosperity
  • NATO requires each country to spend 2% of GDP on military budget
  • Money can be used to ease the passage to peace
  • Trade embargoes and sanctions
17
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What’s AIIB in the role of geopolitical intervention?

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  • Ensures trade networks and infrastructure -> its future geopolitical power
18
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What role does incentives or payments play in maintaining peace?

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Can smooth negotiations and peace settlements

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What are positive examples of roles of technology in geopolitical intervention?

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  • Track refugee movement - HR - surveillance, satellite imagery
  • Crop failure -> protect supply incase of war
  • Electronic transfer of information to send for aid -> peacekeepers
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What are negative examples of roles of technology in geopolitical intervention?

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  • Buying and selling of fire arms -> used for evil
  • Hacking -> breaking a states valuable information data
  • Cyber attacks - influencing political issues (elections)
21
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Give evidence where technology has played a role in geopolitical intervention?

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China Great Firewall protects its populace from receiving news and media from the rest of the world opening them up to ideas of western liberal democracy - sovereignty maintained

22
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How are ideas spread?

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Through there media and institutions, soft power and intervention by troops on the ground

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How is the positive image of American wealth opportunity and glamour spread?

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Social and cooperative media like film and TV

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What idea do WB, IMF, UN WTO and NATO spread?

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Promote idea of democracy, prosperity, equality and peace

25
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How is the idea of equality shared?

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Due to female presence within peacekeepers and UN police

26
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Why is the idea of liberal democracy important?

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Its important with the young people tired of corruption and has led to revolutions

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