POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Neoliberalism, General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade, Treaty On The Non-Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Oded Haklai

Document Summary

International institutions: norms, rules, and practices that constrain activity and shape expectations (ex: treaties, international law) International organization (io): physical entities with infrastructures, offices and staff (ex: the un), liberal response to realist theory. International regimes: sets of implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules and decision making procedures around which actors" expectations converge in a given area or international relation (krasner 1985) Principles: coherent bodies of how the world should work. Norms: identify the rights and obligations of states. Rules: deals with how to implement the norms which are based on the principle. Decisions making procedures: how the regime is going to make the decisions ex: the system of voting in a regime, who gets to vote and how. Constitutive institutions: foundational principles, ex: sovereignty, self- determination, territorial integrity. Fundamentals institutions: principal rules and norms, ex: international law. Issue-specific institutions (regimes): rules and norms that sovereign states agree upon to define legitimate actions in international society, ex: nuclear.