PSCI 3600 Lecture Notes - Hegemonic Stability Theory, Antonio Gramsci, Free Trade

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 3600
• Professor: Supanai Sookmark

Document Summary

International organizations: are collective or corporate actors and can cover several issue areas of international relations. They have multiple state members, created through formal intergovernmental agreement. Some examples are: united nations, imf, world bank, world trade organizations. International regimes: implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules and decision-making procedures around which actors expectations converge in a given area of international relations. They are always related to a specific issue-area, such as: development, finance, trade. Global governance: arrangements at the global level to set rules to regulate activities in different areas. Organizes collective action (the collective pursuit of certain goals), to provide international public goods. Open to non governmental organizations and private actors, such as: big banks. International regimes are shaped by interests of powerful states but can shape states" actions. Benefits of regimes and ios reduce uncertainty, provide access to information, help punish cheaters. Focuses on roles of norms, rules, identities in shaping preferences and action of states and ios.