POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - United Nations General Assembly, Global Governance, Transition Town
Document Summary
Global governance & the international system: anarchic international system we live in an international system in which no world government (realists). In end what matters most is state/ national interests. System in which power matters national power. Zero sum my gain is your loss. Your gain is at the expense of someone else. Realist ww1 function/result of the rise of germany as industrialized challenged uk/england, power transition movement conflict inevitable. Collective security all nation states committed to protection of sovereignty. Nations post ww1 era, prevent something like ww1 to happen again: neoliberal institutionalism no such thing as world government. So long as we live in world of states we can never have world government. Complex interdependence through climate change, global health challenges. Positive sum cooperate with one another, all benefit overall. Functionalism knowledge, specialized knowledge, cooperate and learn together, solve problems together (climate ). Rules and norms need rules and norms, formal rules and informal norms.
