GVPT 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Transaction Cost, Chemical Weapons Convention, Biological Weapons Convention

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Government and Politics
• Course: GVPT 200
• Professor: Calvert Jones

Document Summary

No universal judiciary-internaional courts exist but not all states recognize them and they don"t have a consistent obedience of what is meant to be said. Human rights: universal declaraion of human rights (1948, cedaw: convenion on the eliminaion of all forms of discriminaion against women (1979, internaional criminal court (1998) Warfare and aggression: hague convenion (1899, geneva protocol (1925, un charter (1945, biological weapons convenion (1972, chemical weapons convenion (1993) Other areas, e. g. law of the sea, internet law, etc. Insituion: set of rules structuring and regulaing how states interact with each other. The rise of internaional insituions: igos: intergovernmental organizaions (formal insituion)- an organizaion where muliple governments are involved, ngos: nongovernmental organizaions (includes internaional ngos, or ingos )-includes transnaional and internaional insituions. Complex examples: internaional law being ignored=nicaragua and us in 1980s-us is involved in undermining this sovereign government and nicaragua goes to un naional court and win, but nothing really happens.