PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Humanitarian Intervention, Ethnic Cleansing, Global Governance
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Po102 lecture 13: united nations framework convention on climate change 1994 o signed three treaties, one of three treaties to emerge from rio earth summit, aim to prevent dangerous interference with earths climate system. Outcomes: none of the major industrialized nations have implemented the policies they had envisioned, and none have met their pledged emission reduction targets, current trajectory would not keep global temp rise down. International climate negotiations hampered by lack of central authority that can force countries to act global politics dynamics not conducive to deepening climate cooperation. What is the global governance problem: trying to prevent egregious human rights violations (ex. ethnic cleansing, genocide) How can we address this problem: prevent: address root causes, sanctions, withholding aid, early warning system, punish/deter: international norms and law, protect: military intervention, send in un peacekeepers. Making a case for humanitarian intervention: the counter-restrictionists first: the legal case: 2.
