POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Montevideo Convention, International Political Economy, Free Trade

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Eleanor Mac Donald

Document Summary

International institutions: norms, rules, and practices that constrain activity and shape expectations eg. treaties, international law. International organizations: physical entities with infrastructures, offices, and staff eg. the un. International regimes: sets of implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules, and decision making procedures around which actors expectations converge in a given area of international relations. Fundamental institutions: principal rules and norms eg. international law. Issue specific institutions (regimes): rules and norms that sovereign states agree upon to define legitimate actions in international society eg. 1993. Montevideo convention on the rights and duties of states, nuclear non- proliferation treaty, international covenant on civil and political right. Principles: coherent body of theoretical statements about how the world works. Norms: general standards of behaviour and identifies the rights and obligations of states. Rules: procedures on how to implement the norms. Decision making procedures: how the regime itself is going to make its decisions. : to create some order and increase certainty eg. overcome anarchy.