Week 1 Flashcards
(17 cards)
1
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Changes to IO’s since the turn of the century
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- New patterns of divisions and contestations without existing IO’s
- Normative shifts
- New IO’s
2
Q
What has changed for the actors in global governance
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- Greater influence of emerging powers, less influence of Western states
- More influence of private actors
- Role of public-private partnerships
3
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What has changed for the normative dimension of global governance
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- Decline of Washington Consensus
- New focal point of thinking about development
- Sustainability, climate change as transversal concerns
- Rules-based governance vs sovereignty of states
4
Q
Governance
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focus on processes and their outcomes
5
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Order
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focus on underlying structures
6
Q
Ikenberry and recent developments
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- Scope
- Sovereign-independence
- Sovereign-equality
- Rule of law
- Policy domain
7
Q
Scope
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- From western to global
- New trend towards competing orders
8
Q
Sovereign-independence
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- More and more intrusive regimes curtail state sovereignty
- New trend to affirm sovereign prerogatives of states
9
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Sovereign-equality
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- A flatter world, but depending on how US decline is negotiated
- Need to account for rise of others and their desire to change order
10
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Rule of law
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- Potential for expansion of rules-based governance
- New trend towards disagreement over established and interpretation of rules
11
Q
Policy domain
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- Trent towards inclusion of more and more policy domains
- Is this realistic, if there is more emphasis on sovereignty and conflicts over rules?
12
Q
Multilateralism: the quantitative view
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cooperation involving many
13
Q
The future of multilateralism
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Decline of US, emerging powers, more multipolar structures
14
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Contestation over or disappearance of common ordering principles:
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- Multilateralism reduced to quantitative vision
- Multilateral institutions become fora of multi-actor diplomacy
- Would imply major shifts in terms of governance and order
15
Q
EU as normative power
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- “Ability to shape conceptions of what is normal in international relations.”
- European identity is attractive internationally, its liberal values are being diffused externally
16
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EU has a highly developed liberal regional order
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- Limited sovereignty, comparatively flat hierarchy, binding rules, wide range of policy domains
- But even here internal contestation over desirability of aspect of this order
17
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Limits of the EU
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- EU normative authority in retreat amidst contestation of many rising powers
- EU vision of governance and order unable to address recent challenges
- Wed to some kind of liberal international order 3.0 as in Ikenberry, with EU instead of US?
