GLST 160 Study Guide - Final Guide: Proxy War, European Commission, Neofunctionalism
• Supranational organizations
o Oerrides state’s authority
• Institutions
o Provide rules and framework
o Inform and structure expectations and behavior
o Ex: constitutions, legal systems, etc.
• Regimes
o Broader than institutions
o Ex: human rights regimes
o Form of government or set of rules that regulates the operation of the
government
o Ex: democratic regime
• UN
o IGO
o Proide gloal struture so states do’t hae to resort to fore to settle oflits
o Structure
▪ General assembly
• Composed of representatives of all states
• Allocate UN funds
• Non-binding resolutions
▪ Security council
• Dispatching peacekeepers
• 5 permanent members (Us, Britain, France, Russia, China) and 10
rotating
▪ Secretariat
• Administrative or executive branch of UN
▪ International court of justice
• Judicial arm of UN
▪ National delegations (social council)
• Headed by ambassadors from each member state, work, and
meet together at the UN headquarters in NYC and enjoy
diplomatic status in US
o 193 members, 160 countries
o History
o Revived after cold war
• EU and integration
o Integration: Blend
o See themselves as European
o Brexit: tired of integration
o European commission
▪ Represent EU interests supported by multinational civil service in
Brussels and their role is to identify problems and propose solutions to
the council of the EU
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o First phase: social and economic rights
o Integration can be explained by functionalism
▪ Functionalism: growth of specialized technical organizations that cross
national borders (beginning of EU was this)
▪ Neo-functionalism: focuses on loyalties and identities
• European Union History
o Economic community, explained by functionalism
o Super into integration
o Phases
▪ 1: ECSC (European coal and steel community)
• France Germany, Netherlands
• Reduce trade barriers
• Coordinate coal and steel policies
• 1950s
▪ 2: EEC (European economic community)
• Horizontal integration
▪ EC (European community)
▪ EU (European Union)
• Syria
o Proxy war
o We are’t fightig Russia
o Our forces are fighting theirs in Syria
• 4 tigers
o Underwent rapid industrialization and maintained exceptionally high growth
rates between 60s and 90s
o Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea
• International law
o Set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between
states
o Based on consent- agree to these laws
o 4 sources
▪ Treaties (most concrete)
▪ Customs
▪ General principles
▪ Legal scholarship (advice from smart people)
• Refugees
o Flees because of war, persecution, natural disaster
o IDPs: people who are forced to flee but still in their home country; a lot harder
to track and count
• Rights
o Positive rights
▪ Government supplying people with rights they believe they need to
▪ Right to healthcare, education, etc.
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