PLS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: United Nations General Assembly, Biological Warfare, World Health Organization
Document Summary
Government should follow ethical principals when making foreign policy. Humans can be reasonable, peaceful, and have harmonious interactions. Mutual benefits in sharing resources, humanitarian aid, human rights, ethical standards, and small military. Interdependence in the sense economic faith is linked. Environmental disasters and civil wars in one region leads to migration and refugees effecting other countries population. A government interest is promoted when they power relative to states. Large military to ensure protection and advancement of welfare. 1945 to 1989 u. s intervention was primarily when governments where hostile. Although the un cannot implement rules its detachment from corrupt countries allows it to promote welfare for the countries it governs. Dependent on actions of governments and not of non-state organizations. In an anarchic world states have to be powerful or allied to the powerful to survive. International decision making is based on military security and can not be out weighed by moral principles.
