POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Universal Postal Union, International Criminal Court, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441
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What is global governance: the regulation of interdependent relations between and among states, markets, citizens, organizations and other non-state transnational actors through the development of institutions, law and other formal or informal mechanisms of cooperation. Liberals: states can cooperate when in their interest: the un is not the global government. Offices, desks and permanent staff: organizations vs. institutions: see sens and stoett (pg 186, united nations: multipurpose, universal-membership igo, regio(cid:374)al igo"s (cid:894)eu, oa (cid:895, fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)al igo"s (cid:894)wto, u(cid:374)i(cid:448)ersal postal u(cid:374)io(cid:374)(cid:895) Igos do decrease state sovereignty: so do treaties, which are older than westphalian states. The league of nations: first collective security organization of its kind, formed at the end of wwi, paris peace. Un general assembly: universal membership: current 193 member states, observer status granted to some non-member entities, palestinian state, vatican, switzerland until 2002, eu: unique non-member status, in that it can be invited by member states to speak the.
