SOCECON DECK 3

• Global governance


  The various intersecting processes that create global order
• Sources of global governance

  • Treaties and formal organizations
  • International non-governmental organizations
  • Transnational corporations
• International organization (IO)


  International intergovernmental organizations or groups that are primarily made up of member states
• Major fallacy on IOs: they are merely amalgamations of various state interests
• Powers of IOs


  • Power of classification - can create powerful global standards
  • Power to fix meanings – can be legitimate source of information
  • Power to diffuse norms – spread ideas across the world
• Changes in global nation-state relations

  Formal (treaties, agreements) and informal political relations (friendships, foreign aid) among and between nation-states that have served to structure international and global relations
• Geopolitical processes


  • Emergence of a new Big 3 in the World – EU, China and the USA
• EU


  • The Euro is growing stronger
  • EU is the largest market in the world having surpassed the US
  • Europe is a leader in technological developments
  • London is replacing New York as the global financial capital
• China


  • Trade is growing/expanding
  • Greatest power is in East Asia
  • Maintains relations and even supplies arm to some countries
• United Nations (UN)


  • Premier global organization in the realm of politics
  • Started in October 1945 (the world suffered from WW2) and the world's nations wanted peace
  • Leaders from 51 countries gathered in San Francisco, USA to sign a charter that eventually created the UN
  • The UN as a global setting in which nation-states meet and deliberate
  • It's headquarter is in New York but its presence is felt all over the world
  • Is subsidised by the US government
• Four broad areas of the UN

  • Military Issues e.g. Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
  • Economic Issues e.g. trade to poor countries
  • Environmental Issues e.g. global warming
  • Human Protection
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)


  To improve the economic situation of less developed nations
• United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)


  Focus on the areas of education, the natural and social sciences and culture
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

  The world's "watchdog" on nuclear issues
• World Health Organization (WHO)


  They are the authority on matters of global health and works to ensure all people are free from preventable diseases like malaria and HIV/AIDS
• United Nations Development Programs (UNDP)


  One of its main tasks is to coordinate global efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Challenges of global governance


  • Africa
  • Ageing
  • AIDS
  • Atomic Energy
  • Children
  • Climate Change
  • Decolonization
  • Democracy
  • Ending poverty
  • Poverty
  • Food
  • Gender equality
  • Human Rights
  • International law and justice
  • Migration
  • Oceans/Laws of the seas
  • Peace and Security
  • Population
  • Refugees
  • Water