POLS 2331- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)

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The number of igos have increased in the early 20th century. There was a sharp increase during/after world war ii. Ex: un, gatt (wto), world bank, imf, etc . Steady increase of igos over the 20th century. U. s. membership in igos follows a similar trend. Act as an institution, global governance, or laws and norms. Monitor the number of organizations over the past century and analyze the factors such as colonization, gdp of countries, and globalization. International organizations: politics, law, practice by ian hurd. Ontology of international organizations: actors, fora, resources. International regime - principles, norms, rules, and decision-making procedures (krasner, 1983: un policy is based upon sovereignty and non-interference. Institutionalist theory - a synthesis of realism and liberalism. Systemic constraint-choice analysis: virtues and limitations: assumption that actors respond rationally to constraints and incentives. The context and functions of international regimes: regimes are valuable for fostering mutually bene cial agreements, market failure theory attributes problems to the system, not actors.