1. Civilization Timeline (all dates estimations)
Hunting-Gathering
195,000 – 10,000 BC
Agricultural
Revolution
~10,000 BC
Industrial
~1750/ Computer Revolution
s, 1980s, 1995
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2. Computer Revolution (1930s-40s, 1970s, 1990s)
Computers and Globalization
Computing Power
Ease of travel
Ease of global finance
Communications
Ability to communicate instantly
Ability to communicate globally
Information
Ability to share large amounts of
information with anyone, anywhere
Global spread of technology

3. Early Conclusions of the New Era?
Empowers individuals and organizations
Nation-states have lost their monopoly on:
Violence
Ideas
Communications
Wealth

4. Actors in the International System
Nation-states
War and peace
Intergovernmental Organizations
Their purpose and how they deal with conflict
Non-Governmental Organizations
Non-state actors
The Good
The Bad

5. How do Nation-states cooperate?
IGOs

6. Transnationalism

7. Intergovernmental Organizations – IGOs

8. League of Nations
League of Nations Covenant

9. IGOs United Nations International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, the wealthy countries' club)
Group of Eight: University of Toronto Group of 8 Information Page, (the richest nations' economic leadership forum)
Group of 77 (G-77, a meeting group of developing nations)
African Union (AU)
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
The Commonwealth (Britain and nations that were former colonies)
Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Organization of Central Asian states
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
European Union (EU)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Organization of American States (OAS)
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Pacific Community (Pacific Island nations and territories)

10. United Nations United Nations home page
Secretary General’s home page (with reports, press releases on UN actions)
Secretary General’s Report on UN goals and reform for the 21st century: “In Larger Freedom”
Report of the Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on UN Reform
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
International Court of Justice (ICJ)
International Labor Organization (ILO)
UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
World Health Organization (WHO)
World International Property Organization WIPO (that protects copyrights for patents, books, films, and software)
World Food Program (WFP)
UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

11. UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

12. World Health Organization (WHO)

13. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

14. United Nations Godzilla Countermeasures Center

15. UN Documents, Organization, Responsibilities
UN Charter
UN Structure
UN Documents
UN General Assembly
UN Security Council
Secretary General
International Court of Justice (ICJ)
UN TV

16. UN Structure

17. Collective Security Chapter Seven of the UN Charter Article 39
The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to maintain or restore international peace and security.

18. Collective Security: Korean War 1950-53

19. Korea Still Divided

20. Persian Gulf War

21. Collective Security and the Persian Gulf War
UNSC Resolution 660 (8/2/90)
UNSC Resolution 678 (11/29/90)
Elimination of Iraqi WMD
International Atomic Energy Agency –IAEA
UN Special Commission -- UNSCOM