POLSCI 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Multilateralism, Neoliberalism, Earth Summit

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2H03
• Professor: dr.x

Document Summary

International organizations: rising powers of global south, transnational advocacy networks; civil society and other non gov actors, epistemic communities-communities of knowledge. International organizations: common problems & collective solutions, international orgs play key role in searching for collective solution; bringing all actors together, maximizing efficiency in information exchange, transaction costs, and welfare generation, generate for common good/humanity; for welfare. States are key actors participating in ios and they see ios as agents of states. International organizations: responsibilities, facilitate cooperation through overcoming market failures, collective action dilemmas, and incomplete information, those orgs create actors with responsibilities and authority* Overtime those orgs will be able to change the minds of member states in a new direction; security; it was seen as a security of territories prior. International organizations: principle-agent theory and io autonomy, states as principles authorizing ios to perform specific tasks, overtime ios (problem; they become too powerful)