POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Weak Interaction, International Telecommunication Union, Universal Postal Union
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International organizations and international law are seen as the conceptual and regulatory core of international society of states, as the instrumental arm of what is popularly termed global governance (the study of ios and il) Liberal institutions look to view ios as international solutions to market problems. Realists are less enthusiastic about the purpose and prospects of international institutions and laws, which they see it as a pursuit for national interests. Little cause significance to il but recognize io"s potentials to intervene in conflict situations. Neo-marxists/gramscians would argue that important elements of the superstructure of the capitalist system the institutions and ideologies enforcing and justifying the socioeconomic order can be found at the io/il level. Constructivists argue that by participation in ios such as the eu or african union (au), states change their own identities and thus their estimation of self-interest in the process. Two types if ios exist, igos (intergovernmental organizations) and ngos (nongovernmental organizations)
