POLS 4440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Global Governance, Private Good, International Atomic Energy Agency

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 4440
• Professor: Gregory Chin

Document Summary

Global governance gives critical focus to various non-state actors, formal and informal networks, and broader transnational, supranational, and sub-national realities of contemporary life that increasingly contribute to the establishment and functioning of global rules, norms and institutions. Dominance and leadership in the international economy: exploitation, public goods, and. One country, firm, or person dominated another when the other had to take account of what the first entity did, but the first could equally ignore the second. Leadership may be thought of at first blush as persuading others to follow a given course of action which might not be in the follower"s short-run interest if it were truly independent. As will be suggested below, it has strong elements of both arm-twisting and briber. A public good is one the consumption of which by an individual, household, or firm does not reduce the amount available for other potential consumers.