POLB81H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: World Health Organization, Global Governance, Engo
9 Jun 2016
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Global governance forum: helps to practice systematic thinking and apply to course concepts as well as current events, main question: of what is this an instance, for example, one may consider: governance of ebola. Fragmented response: as stated in the video clip from the lecture slides, although both the us and the uk have stepped up with resources and stuff, it resulted in fragmentation. International neglect: what gets governed, what gets international attention becomes a key question. For the past 400 years, it has mainly been used by states. It basically manages issues that pass by borders. After wwii (un, bretton woods institutions (imf, wb)) Global governance is a better way/perspective of focusing on the. Changes in state interactions play book: ns actors, globalization, power distribution, this structure no longer fits with international relations. Types of problems: managing problems are very different according to the era, we are in an era where most problems are not dealt with nationally anymore.
