INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONSINTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Response papers! | Papers due tomorrow! | Book discussion next weekResponse papers! | Papers due tomorrow! | Book discussion next week

STORY TIME!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? ks/gordon_brown_on_glo bal_ethic_vs_national_int erest.html ks/gordon_brown_on_glo bal_ethic_vs_national_int erest.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 ORDERWORLD 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 NATIONSTHE 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 UNTHE 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 LAWINTERNATIONAL 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 SOVEREIGNTYLAWS 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 DIALOGUESOCRATIC 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 DOCUMENTSUNFCCC- 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?