POLS 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: George Clooney, Global Governance, Global Commons

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 261
• Professor: Stefanievon Hlatky

Document Summary

Rapid intensification and integration of state"s economics, not only in terms of markets but also ideas, information, and technology, which is having a profound impact on political, social, and cultural relations across borders. Formal + informal processes and institutions that guide and control the activities of both state and nonstate actors in the international system. International institutions: complex of norms, rules, and practices that prescribe behavioural roles, constrain activity. Authority + legitimacy to exert influence - through positive outcomes and compliance of states to procedure. Sum of its parts voluntary contributions by states, soliciting member states. International relations: international law should serve interests of powerful states (realists) So long as rules of game serve state"s interests. World politics: international organization reproduce inequalities between states (marxist) Lock in existing power symmetries between industrialized core and periphery. International economic system (world bank, imf-respond to short-term currency crises) Regional alliances- no alternative but to western organizations (over 160 states in un)