INTL 1101 Chapter Notes -Soft Law

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: International Affairs
• Course: INTL 1101
• Professor: Denise Horn

Document Summary

The rise of global civil society: cold war has brought redistribution of power among states, markets, and civil society. One world business: today, a global marketplace is developing for retail sales as well as manufacturing, private capital flow has been growing twice as fast as trade. Increases of goods and people crossing borders and competitive pressures to ease paperwork and regulations had made contraband easier to hide. International organizations are now building constituencies of their own: soft law is expanding in the form of guidelines, recommended practices, and nonbinding resolutions, states give ngo"s like the u. n. unprecedented power by requesting services like election monitoring. Leaps of imagination: the e. u. , neither an union nor international organization, is a three-dimensional network described as an unprecedented hybrid . Lower governmental offices, like american state governments, and even individuals of a country have gained influence in the international arena through ngo"s.