POL 1102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Washington Consensus, Ottawa Treaty, International Relations

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1102
• Professor: Tyler Attwood

Document Summary

Three levels of institutions: deep constitutional institutions. such as the principle of sovereignty, which de ne the terms of legitimate statehood, fundamental institutions. 3. practices that shape how states solve cooperation and coordination problems. These are the norms, techniques, and structures that actors (state and non state) invoke and employ when they have common ends they want to achieve or clashing interests they want to contain. Issue speci c institutions or regimes, such as the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear. Weapons, which enact fundamental institutional practices in particular realms of interstate relations. The treaty is a concrete expression of the practices of international law and multilateralism in the eld of arms control. International organization physical entities that have staffs, head of ces, letterheads. cannot exist w/o an institutional framework. Their very existence presupposes a set of norms, rules, and principles that empower them to act and that they are charged to uphold.