POLSCI 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: International Criminal Court, Nuremberg, Hague Conventions Of 1899 And 1907

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2H03
• Professor: T A

Document Summary

Explore the different actors in global governance - states, corporate actors, civic associations. Examine the historical and current regime of international human rights. Global governance: the overarching system which regulates human affairs on a worlwide basis. Mechanisms and rules of gg are created by the actions and agreements of key actors in the global system obey. Governance is characterized by decisions issued by one actor that a second actor is expected to. Many argue that it pushes a specific western agenda. Primary political actor is the state by other actors such as corporations and civic associations can also influence and participate in global governance. Trend in last 50 years - increasing role played by international (inter-state) organizations in. More recently, growth of corporations and mobilization of citizens through civic associations facilitating governance. Multi-continental interdependence with multiple linkages (keohane and nye) Can"t make the claim that all centers are affected in the same ways.