INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONSResponse papers! | Papers due tomorrow! | Book discussion next week
STORY TIME!• You and the United
Nations by Lois Fisher• 1947, published in the
US for school children• What is the goal of this
publication? • What does this include?
What does it leave out? • How is this different
from Mearsheimer?
NATIONAL INTEREST VERSUS GLOBAL INTEREST?• http://www.ted.com/t
alks/gordon_brown_on_global_ethic_vs_national_interest.html
• Are the national interest and the global interest always opposed? Why? Do some areas lend themselves to international cooperation?
EU- winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2012
WORLD ORDER• Evolution of world
order– Post WWII victors
• International norms and morality– Codified in international
law– Why follow?
Cost/benefit? Norms?
• Roles of international organizations
THE UNITED NATIONS• How much sovereignty do
you (as a state) want to give up?– How important is collective
security?
• The UN system– The Security Council– Peacekeeping forces– The secretariat– General Assembly
• World coffee shop
– UN Programs– Autonomous agencies
THE UN• Decisions in the UN are
“binding”– what does that mean?
• Should members be able to abstain from voting?
• Should there be changes to the UN system?– Would your answer
change if you were “sitting elsewhere”?
INTERNATIONAL LAW• Where does international law
come from?– Reciprocity, collective action,
international norms– Treaties, custom, “general
principles of law”, legal scholarship
• Enforcement issues– No world policeman – Reciprocity, sanctions,
expectations
• World Court (International Court of Justice)– No means to enforce
LAWS AND SOVEREIGNTY • Laws of Diplomacy
– Diplomat rights
• War Crimes– Laws in war/laws of war– Winners versus losers– 1990s- Milosevic – Non combatants
• Just War– Aggression versus defense – Morality and ethics?
• Human Rights– Still being developed– Universal Declaration of HR
SOCRATIC DIALOGUE
• A theorist and a theorist walk into a bar and talk about issue.
• From a theory perspective, issue is like (analogy).
• Theorist/theory: realist, liberal, constructivist, Marxist, feminist, mercantilist, liberal (economic sense)
• Issue: international organizations, human security, health security, environmental security, gender issues, food security
UNFCCC- PRIMARY DOCUMENTS• Who is the primary audience for
these documents? • How is this information presented?
• What kind of language to these
documents employ? • What interests/perspectives are
represented in there documents? • What aims might the UNFCCC
have? Do those aims come through in these documents?
• Did anything surprise you about these documents?
• What types of power do these documents represent?
• Does this institution seem effective?
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