POL208Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bretton Woods System, Treaty On The Non-Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons, Global Governance

64 views16 pages

Document Summary

Definition: a 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. International institutions can be created with out international organizational structure. 3 levels of institutions such as the principal of sovereignty. Constitutional institutions: norms of sovereignty; hold that within the state power and authority re centralized and hierarchical, and outside the state no higher authority exists. Issue-specific institutions or regimes": sets of rules and norms and decisions making procedures to define what legitimate action is in certain situations ie: the nuclear. To facilitate cooperation states create the above international institutions. End of the 30year war; this treaty granted monarch"s rights to maintain standard armies, build fortifications, and levy taxes. Formally ended the first world war; established the league of nations (which later failed but paved the way for the un), created manditories" system under which advanced nations" were given tutelage over colonial peoples.

Get access

Grade+20% off
$8 USD/m$10 USD/m
Billed $96 USD annually
Grade+
Homework Help
Study Guides
Textbook Solutions
Class Notes
Textbook Notes
Booster Class
40 Verified Answers

Related Documents