POLB80H3 Lecture Notes - Julian Assange, Multilateralism, Global Politics
21 Dec 2012
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1964, most multilateral treaties signed, have has risen specifically (from 1596 . Global politics is very much a ordered method. Anarchy and sovereignty don"t take away the fact that some issues are going to go across borders. Making multilateral treaties and interacting in intl orgs. Tension that we see in world politics often revolve around sovereignty and cooperation. States have a desire to protect autonomy, sovereignty, but alos have common concerns they choose to pursue. Deep constitutional ideas if these were changed, it would change the way we operate in world politics. Sovereignty it creates the state system, we would have autonomous states that interact. Basic rules of interaction in the system (human rights, climate change, E. g. rules of diplomacy; embassies are extensions of those countries, diplomats are immune, not subject to the national law: 1979, when iranians took us diplomats hostage (argo, british govt wanted to temp. suspend ecuador"s immunity; julian.
