POL108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Global Governance, World Trade Organization, Collective Action

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Politics and International Relations/Politics
• Course: POL108
• Professor: any

Document Summary

Challenged by globalisation: growth in global interconnectedness, growth in global interdependence, domestic/international no longer distinct. Straddling the middle ground: truth to both sides, but we must be careful about exaggeration, changes in different sovereignty"s, what goes in within states also impacts what goes on between them. Pol108: focusing on politics at all levels. Challenges to the international approach: three main challenges, the emergence of new actors, the growth of interdependence and interconnectedness between states and people, the rise of institutions of global governance. They can only act via their consent: places hard shell around the state, makes state the primary and most important actors in world politics. The billiard ball model: states as primary and independent, sovereignty separates the domestic from the international. We have moved beyond this kind of global politics. Institutions put in enforcement mechanisms: solving collective action problems: terrorism, drug traf cking, climate change, refugee ows,