Lesson 5

Cards (10)

  • Global governance is the sum of laws, norms, policies, and institutions that define, constitute and mediate trans-border relations between states, cultures,citizens,intergovernmental and non- governmental organizations and the market the weiders and the object of the exercise of international public order
  • International Organizations
    • Institutions with formal procedure and a membership comprising three or more states.
    • They are characterized by rules that seek to regulate the relations amongst member states and by a formal structure that implements and enforces these rules
  • Example of International Organizations/Institutions • United Nations • World Trade Organization • International Monetary Fund • World Bank • European Union (EU) • ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asia Nations
  • The United Nations (UN) is the primary international organization responsible for maintaining international peace, cooperation, and security (Coronacion, 2018). As of now, it has 194 Member States which are all members of the General Assembly.
  • General Assembly - is the main deliberative, policy making and representative organ of the UN
  • Security Council - has primary responsibility, under the UN Charter, for the maintenance of international peace and secu
  • Economic and Social Council - is the principal body for coordination, policy review, policy dialogue and recommendations on economic, social and environmental issue
  • Secretariat - comprises the Secretary-General and tens of thousands of international UN staff members who carry out the day-to-day work of the UN as mandated by the General Assembly and the Organization 's other principal organs
  • International Court of Justice - is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. Its seat is at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands). It is the only one of the six principal organs of the United Nations not located in New York (United
  • Trusteeship Council- was established in 1945 by the UN Charter, under Chapter XIII, to provide International supervision for 11 Trust Territories that had been placed under the administration of seven Member States, and ensure that adequate steps were taken to prepare the Territories for self government and independence.