INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONSResponse papers! | Papers due tomorrow! | Book discussion next week

STORY TIME!• You and the United

Nations by Lois Fisher• 1947, published in the

US for school children• What is the goal of this

publication? • What does this include?

What does it leave out? • How is this different

from Mearsheimer?

NATIONAL INTEREST VERSUS GLOBAL INTEREST?

• http://www.ted.com/talks/gordon_brown_on_global_ethic_vs_national_interest.html

• Are the national interest and the global interest always opposed? Why? Do some areas lend themselves to international cooperation?

EU- winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2012

WORLD ORDER• Evolution of world order

– Post WWII victors

• International norms and morality– Codified in international

law– Why follow?

Cost/benefit? Norms?

• Roles of international organizations

THE UNITED NATIONS• How much sovereignty do

you (as a state) want to give up?– How important is collective

security?

• The UN system– The Security Council– Peacekeeping forces– The secretariat– General Assembly

• World coffee shop

– UN Programs– Autonomous agencies

THE UN• Decisions in the UN are

“binding”– what does that mean?

• Should members be able to abstain from voting?

• Should there be changes to the UN system?– Would your answer

change if you were “sitting elsewhere”?

INTERNATIONAL LAW• Where does international law

come from?– Reciprocity, collective action,

international norms– Treaties, custom, “general

principles of law”, legal scholarship

• Enforcement issues– No world policeman – Reciprocity, sanctions,

expectations

• World Court (International Court of Justice)– No means to enforce

LAWS AND SOVEREIGNTY • Laws of Diplomacy

– Diplomat rights

• War Crimes– Laws in war/laws of war– Winners versus losers– 1990s- Milosevic – Non combatants

• Just War– Aggression versus defense – Morality and ethics?

• Human Rights– Still being developed– Universal Declaration of HR

SOCRATIC DIALOGUE

• A theorist and a theorist walk into a bar and talk about issue.

• From a theory perspective, issue is like (analogy).

• Theorist/theory: realist, liberal, constructivist, Marxist, feminist, mercantilist, liberal (economic sense)

• Issue: international organizations, human security, health security, environmental security, gender issues, food security

UNFCCC- PRIMARY DOCUMENTS• Who is the primary audience for

these documents? • How is this information presented? • What kind of language to these

documents employ? • What interests/perspectives are

represented in there documents? • What aims might the UNFCCC have?

Do those aims come through in these documents?

• Did anything surprise you about these documents?

• What types of power do these documents represent?

• Does this institution seem effective?