POL 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Peacebuilding Commission, Peacebuilding, Human Security
7 Apr 2018
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3 types of problems global governance helps resolve. Compare the realist assertion on the nature of ir to states" actual efforts to create some form of international order through institutions. What are institutions: complexes of norms, rules, and practices that prescribe behavioral roles, constrain activity, and shape expectations . Fundamental international institutions provide basic rules and practices that shape how states solve cooperation and coordination. Treaties, custom, general principles of law, legal scholarship. Multilateral diplomacy: cooperation between 3+ states aiming to create reciprocally binding rules of conduct. The prevailing norm is that states abide by international law because they created it and therefore consented to it (a norm of obligation, as with treaties) Western tool of domination: various historical aspects of its origin linked to european imperialism, anglo-european domination of major institutions. The central norm of the legal equality of all sovereign states and rights of self-determination and non-intervention have been heavily supported by non-western states.
