IGS 10a Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Afri, Arms Control, Group Of 77
2 Sep 2016
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Global issues include climate change, global terrorism, pandemics, resurgence of ethnonationalism, financial market meltdowns (ex: 2008), nuclear weapons proliferation, large-scale humanitarian crises and conflicts in africa and middle east, deep poverty, international migration, failed states, health issues. Require action from cooperation of states and non state actors, action from citizens, est new international mechanisms for monitoring or new international rules, most req means for securing compliance from actors. Some req new or existing partnerships (un, nato, au, other) Sometimes global governance synonym for international organization. Mostly captures complexity and dynamism of collective efforts and of states and increasing nonstate actors to identify, understand, and address issues of today"s world. Government suggests activities backed by formal authority. Governance activities back by shared goals; more encompassing phenomenon than government. Global governance - not top down hierarchal authority. The collective effort by sovereign states, international organizations, and other nonstate actors to address common challenges and seize opportunities that transcend national frontiers .
