1. Chapter 7 Intergovernmental Organizations

2. Creation of IGOs Some countries have responsibility to lead League of Nations United Nations Peace Keeping Necessity with increasingly complex and intertwined world

3. Growth of IGOs 251 in 2004 Expanded role re: concerns and issues addressed (example: terrorism, human rights, famine) Increase in international contact Increase in transnational problems Interdependence

4. Functionalism Theory of IGO growth Idea that the way to global cooperation is through an evolutionary approach that begins with limited, pragmatic cooperation on narrow-nonpolitical issues. (example: mail)

5. Neofuncationalism Top-down approach to solving world problems; advocates skeptical about the functionalist believe that nonpolitical cooperation can, by itself, lead eventually to full political cooperation

6. Roles of IGOs An interactive arena in which member-states pursue their individual national interests Center of Cooperation Can serve as unified independent actor on world state Supranational organization (has legal authority over its members)

7. Purposes of IGOs Promote Peace and Security Social, Economic, Environmental and other activities regulated and discussed

8. Future of IGOs Is this progress? Is unification the future? Do alternatives exist?