POLS 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Family Association, United Nations Trusteeship Council, George H. W. Bush
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Global governance- regulation and coordination of transnational issue areas by nation- states, international, and regional organizations, and private agencies through the establishment of international regimes. Regimes focus on problem solving or the enforcing rules. International law- the formal rules of conduct that states acknowledge or contract between themselves. Regime- a set of implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules, and decision-making procedures around which actors" expectations converge in a given area of international relations. Often simply defined as a governing arrangement in a regional or global policy area. International law is best understood as a core international institution- set of norms, rules, and practices created by states and other actors to facilitate diverse social goals from order and coexistence to justice and human development. To achieve international order, states have created international institutions. International institutions- complexes of norms, rules, and practices that prescribe behavioural roles. Constrain activity, and shape expectations: can exist without any kind of organizational structure.