ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Westphalian Sovereignty, Human Security, Global Governance
Document Summary
The united nations is depicted as being the world"s primary international organisation and vital focus for global governance in world politics and ir through universal and general governance. Universal governance is open to all states within the united states where there is currently 193 members within the organisation. However, general governance embraces all issues upon the world stage. The united nations was founded upon the basis of 3 key fundamental principles: sovereign equality of states, only international problems fall within the un jurisdiction, primarily concerned with international peace and security. The basis of national sovereignty is arguably based upon the notion of sovereign equality of member states which is defined by each state being a legal equivalent of every other state upon the world stage. This also interlinks with the notion that legal equality is the basis for each state having one vote in the general assembly.
