POL 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Conditionality, North Pacific Gyre

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1102
• Professor: Mark Salter

Document Summary

The basel law is the international law that makes it illegal to ship toxics across international borders. In international law there is no global enforcement. The advantage of international law is that everyone has to agree. Two theories to international law: law is an expression of dominant interests (icj: law is good for everyone e(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:449)he(cid:374) it does(cid:374)"t (cid:449)ork for you (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it gi(cid:448)es you a(cid:374)other way to solve the problem. The north pacific gyre is where all your plastic bags go. The only reason plastic exists is to make things cheaper. Conclusions: identified deep structures: free trade coffee (intl. dev. Actors and mechanisms: world bank and imf (cid:894)co(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)ality(cid:895) trash: mnc"s a(cid:374)d states (cid:894)glo(cid:271)al supply chains/ race to the bottom)